Jack: What I Learned Leading a Great Company with Great People - Softcover

Jack Welch

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9780755310432: Jack: What I Learned Leading a Great Company with Great People

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ISBN 10: 0755310438 ISBN 13: 9780755310432

Publisher: Headline Paperbacks, 2002

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The American dream - Jack Welch, son of a railway conductor, became Chairman and CEO of one of the world's most profitable companies, General Electric. When he became CEO in 1981 the company was worth $12 billion, but after 20 years its value had gone up to $280 billion. This book describes how he revolutionised GE's corporate culture with his personal management style, blending individual appreciation of each of his 500 managers, with commitment to an informal but driven work style and the encouragement of candour.

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It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. Under his leadership, General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business. In Jack: Straight from the Gut, Welch, with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne, recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century. Beginning with Welch's childhood in Salem, Massachusetts, the book quickly progresses from his first job in GE's plastics division to his ambitious rise up the GE corporate ladder, which culminated in 1981. What comes across most in this autobiography is Welch's passion for business as well as his remarkable directness and intolerance of what he calls "superficial congeniality"--a dislike that would help earn him the nickname "Neutron Jack." In spite of its 496 pages, Jack: Straight from the Gut is a quick read that any student or manager would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards

About the Author:

Jack Welch was born in 1935 in Peabody, Massachusetts, the son of a Boston & Maine train conductor. He joined the General Electric Co in 1960 and was its CEO from 1981 until he retired in 2001.

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