Jack Welch and the GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO

  • 5h 5m
  • Robert Slater
  • McGraw-Hill
  • 1999

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!

About the Author

Robert Slater was born in New York City on October 1, 1943, and grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia High School in 1962 and graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, where he majored in political science. He received a masters of science degree in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1967. He worked for UPI and Time Magazine for many years, in both the United States and the Middle East.

Slater has written 16 books about major business personalities.

In this Book

  • Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
  • Jack Welch Launches His Revolution
  • Embrace Change, Don’t Fear It
  • Stop Managing, Start Leading
  • Cultivate Managers Who Share Your Vision
  • Face Reality, Then Act Decisively
  • Be Simple, Be Consistent, and Hammer Your Message Home
  • Be Number 1 or Number 2, But Don’t Narrow Your Market
  • Look for the Quantum Leap!
  • Fix, Close, or Sell: Reviving NBC
  • Don’t Focus on the Numbers
  • Plagiarize—It’s Legitimate: Create a Learning Culture
  • Get Rid of the Managers, Get Rid of the Bureaucracy
  • Be Lean and Agile Like a Small Company
  • Tear Down the Boundaries
  • Three Secrets: Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence
  • Use the Brains of Every Worker— Involve Everyone
  • Take the “Boss Element” out of Your Company
  • Create an Atmosphere Where Workers Feel Free to Speak Out
  • S-t-r-e-t-c-h! Reach for the Stars!
  • Grow Your Service Business—It’s the Wave of the Future
  • Look to Financial Services to Bring in Earnings
  • Have Global Brains— and Build Diverse and Global Teams
  • Live Quality—and Drive Cost and Speed for Competitive Advantage
  • Make Quality the Job of Every Employee
  • To Achieve Quality: Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control
  • Jack Welch Deals with Adversity
  • Jack Welch Deals with the Next Generation
  • Bolstering General Electric
  • Advice for Other Companies
  • Epilogue
  • Endnotes
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