Hints and tips:
...One subject, Harold Pinter, seethed at Brown at a party, and only just declined to hit him, saying “I wouldn’t dirty my fists.”...
...Jack Welch’s Straight from the Gut and Winning are hardly much better....
...Pilita Clark, business columnist Jack: Straight from the Gut, by Jack Welch (2001) Jack Welch’s 18-year-old memoir is heading to Bracken House for a simple reason....
...Harold Geneen built ITT in the 1960s and 1970s into a conglomerate that eventually controlled more than 2,000 business units worldwide, from Sheraton hotels to Wonder Bread....
...No wonder Harold Macmillan, the prime minister, declared in 1957: “Let’s be frank about it, most of our people have never had it so good.”...
...Harold Wilson 33. Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe PM 34. Nero 35. Gloria Steinem, US feminist 36. Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist 37. Ronald Reagan 38. John Major 39. Saddam Hussein 40....
...Every celebrity CEO memoir published since (think Lee Iacocca, Harold Geneen and Jack Welch) has lived in its shadow....
...It was never going to be easy to replace Jack Welch as chief executive of General Electric, for instance....
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