Comments on: Book Review: Managing by Harold Geneen with Alvin Moscow

By: Stanley

Stanley — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:18:59 +0000

The biography is entitled “Geneen” by Robert Schoenberg, and it’s definitely worth a read.

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Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:16:19 +0000

[...] The picture of a multi-armed hindu god comes to mind, or Harold Geneen of ITT who successfully managed 50 companies that I read spent just 30 minutes per week on each company by reviewing a single page Tracking Report (SeeÂ article on Geneen) [...]

By: Damian Street

Damian Street — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:24:26 +0000

I read a wonderful book about HSG in the eighties but I can’t seem to locate it anywhere. As my corporate hero I want to read it again. I believe it was called simply Harold S Geneen. Can you help?

By: Robert Hanway

Robert Hanway — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:05:10 +0000

My dad was hired by Mr. Geneen in the early sixties and stayed with ITT even after Mr. Geneen eventually left ITT. In a way, I feel like I know Mr. Geneen too even though I only met him once and then attended his funeral. Mr. Geneen had those legendary, long meetings, and Dad was was one of his chief lieutenants, the one Mr. Geneen often talked to after the others went home. In turn, Dad taught work ethic and professionalism to me. It is all about character, pursuit of “unshakeable facts”, dogged determination, personal accountability, and getting it done–no theories or shortcuts that were not efficiency-driven. That was Mr. Geneen, and that is still my Dad.