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-Harold S. Geneen
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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.“
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"I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest."
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