Talk:Thomas J. Watson Jr./Archives/2013

Tom vs. Thomas
Much of the content of Thomas J. Watson, Jr. was manually transferred from Tom Watson Jr, which was suggested for merging.

There is a LOT of data which whoever created Tom Watson Jr page simply transcribed directly from an encyclical. It still needs to be teased out. I removed a lot of POV, but anyone is welcome to help. HOT L Baltimore 23:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The original page became a redir with nothing pointed to it, so I deleted it to avoid namespace pollution. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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Do we really need the Time Magazine cover?
I've said no over on the. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  03:36, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Suggesting move to Thomas Watson, Jr.
The page name has a "J," in it, which is highly unusual for the wiki. Looking over the edit history, it appears this happened because there were originally two pages, TJWJr and Tom Watson Jr., and the later merged into this. I suggest removing the J., and will do so if no one complains. Maury Markowitz (talk) 23:12, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Quotes
"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. "

"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."

"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous &mdash; not just to some people in some circumstances &mdash; but to everyone all the time."

"Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new."

"When my father died in 1956 &mdash; six weeks after making me head of IBM &mdash; I was the most frightened man in America. For ten years he had groomed me to succeed him, and I had been a young man in a hurry, eager to take over, cocky and impatient. Now, suddenly, I had the job &mdash; but what I didn't have was dad there to back me up".

Citations needed
The above unsourced quotes were removed, since they seem like a "trivia" section which is now deprecated. I did some work on finding citations for other info, and found some errors, and outright plagerism from the Mercer book, so it makes me suspicious. W Nowicki (talk) 00:43, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Tone in IBM personnel policies
Workers on the "sharp end"? Doesn't seem very objective (or even cited) to me. Yworo (talk) 04:55, 26 August 2010 (UTC)