Managing

by Harold Geneen

Harold Geneen, a world-renowned business manager in his day who turned a faltering ITT into a giant conglomerate dealing with everything from 'Wonder Bread' to Avis cars-while sales skyrocketed from $766 million to $22 billion. His management techniques were so successful that ITT was dubbed "Geneen University". Harold Geneen was president and CEO of ITT from 1959 to 1977. Part biographical, part management theory, Managing by Harold Geneen with Alvin Moscow is a study in management methods most commonly associated with the 1970s.

Genres: Business, Management, Nonfiction, Business Leadership

305 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 1985

Reviews

[Yernur Satybaldiyev · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read a number of books about management by different world-known gurus in this area, but among the kind"Managing" is the best ever I've come across so far. It's a "must" for reading for anyone who is involved in the management of any organization at any level. I really wonder why this book is not popular nowadays and stopped being published at all. Tha't real pity. All the cases are real and taken from real life. I always favour the business books written on the base of real experience, but not theory. There are so many good management books by theoritical gurus in this field, but none of them can be compared to the one written by someone who actually did himself or went throught what he wrote. While reading i've found so many similar cases to what happening in the business world of our days. The book opened my eyes and made me understand the human nature better than before.

[Felix · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well worth reading.

I took off a star because he paints a very lopsided picture of LBOs as an unadulterated good. Maybe when it's done by people like him, yes, but often it's done by profiteering hacks and politicians' cronies and nothing good comes out of it.

[Sherry Snyder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always timely. Geneen's style is as out-of date as any Hall of Famer in sports.

[Mai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent study of management practice considered best in class during the 1970s.