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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could build fast because he had broken down the construction process into 27 operations, then mustered specialized teams to repeat each operation at each building site. Twenty acres were set aside as an assembly point, where cement was mixed and lumber cut. Trucks would deliver parts and material to homesites placed at 60-ft. intervals. Then the carpenters, tilers, painters and roofers arrived, each in his turn. There was a team for white paint, another for red. One worker's sole daily task was to bolt washing machines to floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburban Legend WILLIAM LEVITT | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Back from the war, Tom Jr. saw IBM afresh and quickly realized that its future lay in computers, not a 19th century information technology like tabulators. Even the first primitive vacuum-tube machines could calculate 10 times as fast as IBM's tabulators. Many people, however, including Watson's father, couldn't believe the company's core products were headed for extinction. Nonetheless, Tom Jr., who became IBM president in 1952, never retreated. He recruited electronics experts and brought in luminaries like computer pioneer John von Neumann to teach the company's engineers and scientists. By 1963, IBM had grabbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THOMAS WATSON JR: Master Of The Mainframe | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Watson, who shared his father's volcanic temper, was just warming up. Fearful of falling behind in the fast-changing industry, Watson promoted "scratchy, harsh" individuals and pressured them to think ahead. (When IBM engineers complained that transistors were unreliable, Watson handed out transistor radios and challenged the critics to wear them out.) He never backed away from conflict, not even what he called "savage, primal and unstoppable" fights with his father over issues like finance. He installed a "contention" system that encouraged IBM managers to challenge one another. Watson was paternal with rank-and-file employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THOMAS WATSON JR: Master Of The Mainframe | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...during this period that America's shareholders and entrepreneurs fast expanded, and few knew better how to benefit from that growth than bouncy Malcolm Forbes, the ultimate Capitalist Tool. His Scottish-immigrant father, Bertie C. Forbes, a popular Hearst business columnist, had launched the fortnightly Forbes in 1917 and profited from inspirational profiles of company leaders. The very first editorial in this very first U.S. business magazine began, "Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words To Profit By | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...recently gave a speech to managers of a fast-growing Silicon Valley company. Before I began, the CEO pulled me aside to tell me about the audience. He said they had all become rich from company stock options and didn't need to work anymore. The CEO explained that the managers stayed on because they were intrinsically motivated to make the world a better place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gene Fool | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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