Geneen biography

Harold S. Geneen (January 22, 1910 – November 21, 1997) was an American businessman who served as the CEO of the ITT Corporation (1959-1977).

Quotes

• I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to?

Managing (1985)

Managing, Geneen and Moscow, Granada Publishing Ltd. (1985)

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
  • Chapter One (Theory G on Management), p. 13.

• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins; cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
  • Chapter Three (Experience and Cash), p. 39.

• Every company has two organizational structures: the formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday living relationship of the men and women in the organization.
  • Chapter Four (Two Organizational Structures), p. 64.

• Management manages by making decisions and by seei
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  Geneen Roth

  
  

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  Geneen Roth is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestselling When Food is Love and The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It, a memoir. She has been teaching groundbreaking workshops and retreats for over thirty years. Roth is a contributor to many publications from Huffington Post and Good Housekeeping to O:The Oprah Magazine, and has appeared on numerous national shows including Oprah, 20/20, Good Morning America, The View and NPR's Talk of the Nation . She lives in northern California with her husband.

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  Series

  Books:

  Lost And Found, April 2011
  Hardcover
  Women, Food, And God, March 2010
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  HAROLD GENEEN 1910-1997

  Harold Geneen inherited a stodgy telecommunications company when he was recruited for ITT's presidency in 1959�he then transformed it into a multinational conglomerate power-house, pumping up annual sales from $766 million to $22 billion over time. Juggling ITT was not much different from his father's job of managing concert performers. Geneen was born in Britain, but his family moved to the United States when he was less than a year old. After attending a Connecticut private school, he began work as a page on Wall Street, then pursued an accounting career. Geneen held several finance jobs with such firms as American Can Co. and Bell & Howell. Then, in 1956 he was hired as an executive vice president of Raytheon. His mission: to turn around the ailing company, which he did, and after three years he was tapped by ITT.

  In less than 10 years, Geneen built ITT into a conglomerate of 150 affiliated companies operating in 57 countries, managing interests that varied from the U. S. president's hotline with Moscow to Avis Rent-A-Car. Never lik