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Revision as of 11:17, 29 December 2001 by Simon J Kissane (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Thomas J. Watson became head of IBM corporation, rescued it from near extinction. Prior to that, he worked for NCR in charge of its sales force, until he was convicted for illegal anti-competitive sales practices (e.g. he used to have people sell deliberately faulty cash registers, either second-hand NCR or from competitors; soon after the second-hand NCR or competitors cash register failed, an NCR salesperson would arrive to sell them a brand new NCR cash register). He was famous for making his salespeople at both NCR and IBM attend sing-a-longs.