He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

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• Harold S. Geneen:

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

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  Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

• Harold S. Geneen:

  The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and

• Harold S. Geneen:

  The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed

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  The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization,

• Harold S. Geneen:

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