Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO

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McGraw Hill Professional, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 328 pages
Behind the scenes with the legendary CEO

Jack Welch’s innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch and the GE Way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access to Welch and other prominent GE insiders. What emerged is a brilliant portrait that tells you what makes Jack Welch tick. Learn how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market.

Get details on Welch’s far-reaching Six Sigma quality initiative, and discover how its principles and standards can save billions of dollars...how and why he has made GE a truly global company (and why you must think global as well)...and all the other Welch "midas touch" strategies you can put to work in your organization, at every level!

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Contents

Embrace Change Dont Fear It
17
Stop Managing Start Leading
27
Cultivate Managers Who Share Your Vision
35
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About the author (1999)

Robert Slater has over 25 years of experience writing for Time, Newsweek, and UPI. Slater has written a number of bestselling business books, including Jack Welch and the GE Way; The New York Times business bestseller Ovitz: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Most Controversial Powerbroker; Get Better or Get Beaten: 31 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch, and Soros: The Life, Times, & Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor. His latest book, Saving Big Blue: Leadership Lessons & Turnaround Tactics of IBM's Lou Gerstner, was published in September 1999.

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