Author

Harold S. Geneen

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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“Management must manage!”— Harold S. Geneen
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“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”— Harold S. Geneen
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“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”— Harold S. Geneen