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The synergy myth and other ailments of business today

1st ed.
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In the 1960s and '70s and American businessman named Harold Geneen transformed a hodgepodge of small companies into a $28 billion industrial empire called ITT. Now, at the age of eighty-seven and still turning unprofitable companies into profitable ones, this down-to-earth business giant shares his observations about the trouble with American companies - and what CEOs, boards of directors, managers, hired guns, shareholders, and every American citizen can do to fix it.

With wit and directness, Geneen champions the old-fashioned values of hard work, honesty, risk-taking, common sense, and decisiveness. With equal fervor, he tears apart the concepts of "reengineering," "synergy" and other faddish management theories; bureaucracy; cynicism; excessive compensation packages for CEOs; the current panic about the budget deficit; derivatives; lawyers; corporations posing as "socially responsible citizens"; the federal government's antitrust activities; and more.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
248

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The synergy myth and other ailments of business today
1997, St. Martin's Press
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
658
Library of Congress
HD31 .G396 1997, HD31.G396 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 248 p. ;
Number of pages
248

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1003319M
Internet Archive
synergymythother00gene
ISBN 10
0312147244
LCCN
96042975
OCLC/WorldCat
35318840
Library Thing
2959756
Goodreads
1143774

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