Lawrence Bossidy

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Lawrence A. Bossidy ('Larry') is a businessman and author. From 1991-1999 Bossidy served as Chairman and CEO of AlliedSignal Corporation. He became Chairman of Honeywell Corporation when Honeywell was acquired by AlliedSignal in 1999. (Allied Signal, well known in the Aerospace, Aviation, and Military industries adopted the Honeywell name, as Honeywell's product diversity provided greater notoriety in the consumer market). In 2002, he co-authored a book entitled Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. (ISBN 0-609-61057-0)

He is currently the chairman of the pharmaceutical company Merck.

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Bossidy was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1935, graduated from Colgate University, and has nine children and 25 grandchildren.

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