Jack
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Ratings6
Average rating4.2
"As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, he has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation.
At the same time, he's a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a "boundaryless" sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy. In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people (most notably his Irish mother) who shaped his life and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career."--BOOK JACKET.
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A fairly light read, and considerably better than I thought it would be. Having lived through the 80s-90s when Jack Welch was Public Enemy #1 in the popular press, it was refreshing to read Jack's side of the story, and get some real insight into stack ranking. Let me rephrase that I got insight into stack ranking. I have no idea if anyone has. I should also add that my father worked for GE for a number of years in motors, which was eventually sold to Regal Beloit. He did well enough at both companies.
I would not then nor now want to work for Jack Welch. Neither would I have then or now join GE or a similar company (eh... Netflix). Not how I want to my life, but I appreciate the aggression and passion with which these businesses operate.
