Talk:Harold Geneen

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John Walker (programmer) wrote:

Management must manage: was the motto of Harold Geneen, who built ITT from an obscure international telephone company into the prototype of the multinational conglomerate. What Geneen meant by this is that the art of the manager is coming to terms with whatever situations develop in the course of running a business and choosing the course of action that makes the best of each. [1]

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Clarified post-CEO years with ITT.

CEO, Chairman. Board. Also Lyman Hamilton was CEO for 18 months. See my ITT Corporation edits Alanf777 (talk) 21:25, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

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Tenuous links with 1964 Brazil coup

See what I wrote here. Just like the ITT Inc article was, this article tries to link ITT and Geneen to the 1964 Brazilian coup, but the links are tenuous: (1) the Brazilian government had nationalised ITT assets in Brazil, arguably giving them some motivation to support the coup; (2) Geneen was personal friends with the CIA director, and the CIA gave heavy support to the coup; (3) several years later, when said CIA director retired, ITT hired him. I'm sorry, but that doesn't demonstrate that Geneen or ITT had any involvement in the coup. Pointing out they possibly had motive – well, having motive to do something is not by itself evidence that you actually did it. Being personal friends with the CIA director doesn't make you responsible for or involved in the CIA's activities. Nor does hiring a former CIA director make a company responsible for or involved in the CIA's activities while that director was in charge of it. Unless someone can come up with hard evidence that Geneen was involved in the 1964 coup, mention of it should be cut from his article. SJK (talk) 11:30, 20 September 2019 (UTC)