[Farmall] Corporate Tragedy, Agony of IH

[Guy Fay]

The problem with Corporate Tragedy is that it misses the problems of the 
early years- IH was in trouble a lot earlier than that book goes into. 
If you read some of the internal company stuff, IH was having serious 
problems in the 1930s, as the first generation of IH executives were 
dying out/retireing, and the transition to the second generation was 
slow. Fowler McCormick turned it around for awhile, but made crucial 
errors in personnel.

Bob Jacobs wrote:

>yepper,  corporate giant to death in a relatively short span.  
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>I didn't know they'd reprinted the book.  I happen to have a first edition
>copy.  Mom said Dad had to buy it on the first day of release since he was a
>dealer for a good number of years.  Now that I've read it though I guess I
>may list it on E-Bay and move it on to someone else to enjoy.  Otherwise it
>ll just sit here with the several hundred other already read books.  LOL, 
>too much stuff, too little space.
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>Bob 
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>From: Farmall/IHC mailing list
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>Date: 09/09/04 19:36:20
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>To: Farmall/IHC mailing list
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>Subject: [Farmall] Corporate Tragedy, Agony of IH
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>Bob Jacobs wrote:
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>>I just got done reading a book of the history of IHC. called A Corporate
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>>Tragedy - The Agony of International Harvester Company.  Great book for
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>>you interested in Farmall.  Written by Barbara Marsh and published in 1985
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>>i found it in my dad's things and it's a pretty good read.
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>Bob, that is a good book.  Sad to think how such a successful and
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>important company ran themselves out of business.  Binder Books at
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>www.binderbooks.com reprinted it a while ago, and I believe copies they
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>still have copies available although it's out of print at the regular
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>bookstores.
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>Dean Vinson  --  Dayton Ohio
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><http://my.voyager.net/~vinsond/>
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