TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geneen,Harold
AU  - Bowers,Brent
TI  - The synergy myth and other ailments of business today
SN  - 0312147244
AV  - HD31 .G396 1997
U1  - 658 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Business
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=007940352&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/synergymythother00gene
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1003319M
ER  -