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Former IBM CEO Buck Rodgers worked standing up. He had a long thin table partly covered in butcher block paper. When he wanted to issue an order, he wrote it on

by miked 16y ago

Former IBM CEO Buck Rodgers worked standing up. He had a long thin table partly covered in butcher block paper. When he wanted to issue an order, he wrote it on the butcher paper, ripped it out and sent it out. I always thought this was a great way to signal that substance counts more than presentation for internal docs.

jacquesm 16y ago
He's called 'Buck Rogers', Buck Rodgers is a fictional character.
- jvdh 16y ago
  It's the other way around. Buck Rogers is the fictional character, and Buck Rodgers is the IBM manager.
  - jacquesm 16y ago
    Hah, fancy that! Apologies, I could have sworn it was the reverse. Thanks for the correction. Please vote that down, I can't delete it anymore, and I don't like deleting stuff anyway, it's the cowards way out.
- gjm11 16y ago
  Exactly backwards: Buck Rogers is the fictional character, Buck Rodgers the senior IBM guy. But he was never CEO, only VP of Marketing. See, e.g., http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/dpd50/dpd50_5406RFG.html http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/dpd50/dpd50_5406R... .