Timeless Management Principles:
Corporate Culture

Watson Sr. and Drucker on Corporate Culture
Date Published: August 3, 2021
Date Modified: January 1, 2024
The Corporation as Human Effort
The essence of the corporation is social, that is a human organization. ... For far too many people the essential in modern industrial production is not the social organization but raw materials or tools. ...

As a result, most of us—including a good many people in industrial production itself—fail to understand that modern production, and especially modern mass production, is not based on raw materials or gadgets but on principles of organization—organization not of machines but of human beings.
​Peter F. Drucker
The Concept of the Corporation, 1964
To  Make a Business Grow, Begin Growing Men!
"When we start thinking of men as automatons, clicking their respective ways through the processes of life with mechanical exactness, that day we lose our own identity and become automatons ourselves.

​When we cease to realize the interdependence of men we are on the brink of failure."
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The World's Greatest Salesman
System, The Magazine of Business, August 1926​
Tom Watson Sr. constantly talked about "Growing Men" in the same breath as "Growing the Business." Even his son Thomas J. Watson Jr. when publishing his lecture series at Columbia University, A Business and its Beliefs, started his lecture series with two chapters on; "Bringing out the Best" and "Helping Men Grow."

​It is not hard to discern that they both considered growing men and women as the essence of growing a business.
​Peter E. Greulich Insight
March 23, 2013​
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