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Mr. Watson
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Facts Then Decision Then Action — No Faltering, Plow Cash Back Into Acreage, Capability as the Product
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"Tex handled it better than I did," Mr. Watson says. "Like him, I wanted to avoid extremes that don't seem to work, like cutting the kids' water oflF entirely or drowning them with too much income. So I decided to give…
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""Tex handled it better than I did," Mr. Watson says. "Like him, I wanted to avoid extremes that don't seem to work, like cutting the kids' water oflF entirely or drowning them with too much income. So I decided to give each of my chil- dren just enough shares of IBM stock in their own right so that they could pay all of their normal expenses in school and college from the dividends. It backfired on me, though. By the time they were grown, IBM stock had gone up about fifty-to-one. The modest incomes I'd planned for them went right out the window. They were loaded.""
Someone Has to Make It Happen; The Inside Story of Tex Thornton, the Man Who Built Litton Industries
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Facts Then Decision Then Action — No FalteringPlow Cash Back Into AcreageCapability as the ProductWindows of the Mind Not Product ListsNegotiate From Their Chair FirstSmall Solution Scaled to Big ProblemOne Building Block Then Mosaic OutwardStock From His Own Hide to Hook the Best FishOutwork Them Past MidnightLet Fresh Ideas Prove Themselves Before ShootingFifty-Foot Rope for Thirty-Foot DrowningGrab Authority or Lose It