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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.

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
Business, Men, Organization
"Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership". Book by Terence F. Moore, p. 100, 1999.

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 Geneen
Leadership, Business, Reality

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

Harold Geneen
Success, Business, Congratulations

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
Running, Business, Book

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 Geneen
Business, Management, Economics
"Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

What you manage in business is people

Harold Geneen
Business, People, Management

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Harold Geneen
Business, Uncertainty And Doubt, Uncertainty Of Life

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Harold Geneen
Business

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Harold Geneen
Running, Business, Inspiration

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Harold Geneen
Business, Fall, Balance

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