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Harold S. Geneen
British
Businessman
About the author
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Communication
#Discrimination
#Innovation
Management must manage!
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Management
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#American
#Results
#Managers
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Forget
#Performance
#Reality
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Business
#Theory
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Performance
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,
British
Businessman
#People
#Attitude
#Performance
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Management
#Decisions
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Work
#Disease
#Business
#Egotism
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Will
#Uncertainty
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Today
#Needs
#Myths
#Yesterday
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Work
#President
#Vice
#Company
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Business
#Theory
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Words
#Business
#Performance
#Reality
#Promises
#Explanations
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,
British
Businessman
#Men
#Women
#Company
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,
British
Businessman
#Words
#Law
#Business
#Performance
#Reality
#Promises
#Explanations
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#People
#Policy
#Reason
#Open
#Leader
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Words
#Actions
#Attitude
#Leadership
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#People
#Facts
#Giving
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#People
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,
British
Businessman
#Words
#Law
#Business
#Performance
#Reality
#Promises
#Explanations
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Job
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,
British
Businessman
#Will
#World
#First
#Experience
#Business
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Performance
#Measure
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Business
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen,
British
Businessman
#Leadership