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"Management must manage!" Harold Geneen
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"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." Harold Geneen
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Action    Attitude   

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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 Geneen
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"It is much more difficult to measure non performance than performance." Harold Geneen
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"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else." Harold 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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"It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away." 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 Geneen
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"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings." Harold Geneen
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"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it." Harold Geneen
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Beginning    Business   

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"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away." Harold Geneen
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Performance   

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"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented." Harold Geneen
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Management    Time And Time Management   

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"Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it." Harold Geneen
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"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 Geneen
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"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 Geneen
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"We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs." Harold Geneen
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"The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent." Harold Geneen
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"When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him." Harold Geneen
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"If you keep working you'll last longer and I just want to keep vertical. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish." Harold 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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"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 Geneen
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