Townsend was a Princeton University graduate who served in the U.S. Navy and then as a business man for American Express and Avis. He is most well known for his 1970 book Up the Organization about how to stop corporations from stifling people and strangling profits.
Robert Townsend
Author details
- Born:
- Sept. 7, 1920
- Died:
- Jan. 2, 1998