Geneen

Robert J. Schoenberg. Warner Books, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-446-37008-0

Schoenberg, author of The Art of Being a Boss, traces the career of Harold S. Geneen, who during the '60s and '70s built International Telephone and Telegraph into one of the top Fortune 500 companies. Included are Geneen's well-known successes, failures and scandals; in the end, PW observed, Schoenberg portrays Geneen as an executive who pursued growth and increased earnings ""with no larger vision whatever.'' January

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