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Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-432) and index, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric and one of the most renowned figures in today's business world, has been seen by some as the model corporate leader and by others as the quintessential unmitigated pursuer of profit. In this book, the man and his methods, and the legendary company he runs, are examined. As we watch Welch's spectacular rise through the ranks at GE, we see his impetuousness, his aggressiveness, his lightning strikes. We see the making of an extraordinary leader who is a catalyst for change, who anticipates events rather than merely reacting to them, and who confronts complacency with blitzkrieg action. But success for a company can come at a price for the community. As Thomas F. O'Boyle shows, long before most chief executives had heard of corporate restructuring - and long before \"downsizing\" became a word heard daily in American life - Welch was practicing both. As the story of his seventeen-year tenure unfolds, we see him eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, send other jobs abroad, buy and sell hundreds of businesses, remove entire echelons from the corporate hierarchy, and shift the company's

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Author

O; Boyle, Thomas F

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375705670

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Memoir, Business

Rating

3.26 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14