Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman

Résumé : Obvious Adams was the first of many published writings of this author. They ranged from magazine articles to hardcover books. It was his hobby. As his son once said, “I never saw Dad whenever he was on vacation or in his ‘spare time' that he didn't have a clipboard, some yellow copy paper and several pencils on hand, drafting his latest article or book.” Although he wrote for pleasure, sometimes anonymously and sometimes under pen names when not under his own name, most of his writings were published. Bob Updegraff, as his friends and clients called him, was a business counselor serving as a personal advisor over a period of forty years to the top management of several companies. He also carried out a special project for Reader’s Digest to which he had contributed several articles under various pen names. Although he resigned from all boards at age seventy as a matter of principle, he remained associated with several of his long-term clients well into his eighties. He was still writing articles and drafting books he hoped to publish at the time of his death at 88.