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In the early 1990s Forbes magazine called General Electric "the most powerful enterprise in American business". Yet only a decade earlier this world-famous corporation, provider of light bulbs and aircraft engines, locomotives and medical imaging equipment, was heading for a crisis that few acknowledged. CEO Jack Welch - tough-minded, iconoclastic, controversial, courageous, despised - alone understood that, for GE to weather the stormy ocean of economic...
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Jack Welch, the high-powered boss of General Electric, has guided the company through significant changes in the years he's been at the helm. But Welch has come under severe criticism for his draconian reorganizations, from employees who have lost jobs as a result of downsizing to stockholders worried about the company's future. In this program, Welch defends his business decisions, including his controversial purchase of NBC Broadcasting in the 1980s....
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This book presents the voice and vision of General Electric's CEO and Chairman of the Board Jack Welch as he gives the insights, visions, and philosophies that have guided Welch throughout his extraordinary career at GE and his post-GE life. This book offers an objective assessment of Welch-from the management principles that helped him soar to the controversy surrounding his compensation package and provides lessons in leadership that cannot be found...
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"Jack Welch is the most admired, copied, and studied CEO of the 20th century. His visionary initiatives and concepts - and adaptive management strategies - earned him the title of the most effective CEO in history. This alphabetically arranged, encyclopedic reference, The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership, provides an in-depth look at the methods that Welch used to turn GE into the world's most valuable corporation."
"By adding speed, simplifying...
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"Welch: An American Icon delivers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how this man has become a global symbol of brilliant management, shedding new light on the tactics, style, and personality of the man who made GE a dominating force in world business.
Janet Lowe explores the shining successes as well as the darker aspects of Jack Welch's life and work - how he shaped and influenced GE, how he pushed the company into the global marketplace, and how...
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They called him Neutron Jack. They called him the world's toughest boss. And then Fortune called him "The Manager of the Century." In his twenty-year career at the helm of General Electric, Jack Welch defied conventional wisdom and turned an aging behemoth of a corporation into a lean, mean engine of growth and corporate innovation. In this remarkable autobiography-a classic business book-Jack Welch takes us on the rough-and-tumble ride that has been...
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