Get Better or Get Beaten: 29 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch, Second Edition

  • 2h 32m
  • Robert Slater
  • McGraw-Hill
  • 2001

Since it first hit business bestseller lists, Get Better or Get Beaten! has shown over 100,000 executives how to understand the secrets--and emulate the successes--of GE's legendary CEO Jack Welch. Now completely revised and updated with rules for managers in today's transformed economy, this fast-paced classic provides proven leadership imperatives for every situation, regardless of industry.

From Secret #1 ("Harness the Power of Change") to Secret #29 ("Use e-Business to Put the Final Nail in Bureaucracy"), Get Better or Get Beaten! is today's most straightforward, easy-to-follow blueprint for real-world success. Read it, learn from it, and use it to follow in the footsteps of corporate history's most honored CEO--GE's Jack Welch.

About the Author

Robert Slater has over 25 years of experience with Time, Newsweek, and UPI. One of today's top business biographers, Slater has written a number of bestselling books, including Jack Welch and the GE Way and The GE Way Fieldbook.

In this Book

  • Harness the Power of Change
  • Face Reality!
  • Managing Less is Managing Better
  • Create a Vision, Then Get Out of the Way
  • Don't Pursue a Central Idea; Instead, Set Only a Few Clear, General Goals as Business Strategies
  • Nurture the Employees Who Share the Company's Values Deliver on Commitments and Share the Company's Values
  • Evaluate Your Business with a Fresh Eye and Decide What Needs Fixing, What Needs Nurturing, and What Needs to be Jettisoned!
  • Be Number One or Number Two and Keep Redefining Your Market
  • Downsize, Before it's Too Late!
  • Use Acquisitions to Make the Quantum Leap!
  • Learning Culture I: Use Boundarylessness and Empowerment to Nurture a Learning Culture
  • Learning Culture II: Inculcate the Best Ideas into the Business, No Matter Where They Come From
  • The Big Winners in the 21st Century will be Global
  • De-Layer: Get Rid of the Fat!
  • Spark Productivity Through the “S” Secrets (Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence!)
  • Act Like a Small Company
  • Remove the Boundaries!
  • Unleash the Energy of Your Workers
  • Listen to the People Who Actually do the Work
  • Go Before Your Workers and Answer all their Questions
  • Stretch: Exceed Your Goals as Often as you can
  • Make Quality a Top Priority
  • Make Quality the Job of Every Employee
  • Make Sure Everyone Understands How Six Sigma Works
  • Make Sure the Customer Feels Quality
  • Grow Your Service Business—It's the Wave of the Future
  • Turn Your Business into an E-Company
  • Make Existing Businesses Internet-Ready—Don't Assume that New Business Models are the Answer
  • Use E-Business to Put the Final Nail in Bureaucracy
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