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Welch : an American icon / Janet Lowe.
Lippincott Library HD9697.A3 U588 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowe, Janet.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welch, Jack, 1935-2020.
- Welch, Jack.
- General Electric Company--Management.
- General Electric Company.
- Electric industries--United States.
- Electric industries.
- Management.
- United States.
- Chief executive officers--United States--Biography.
- Chief executive officers.
- Leadership--United States.
- Leadership.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Wiley, [2001]
- Summary:
- Janet Lowe (Del Mar, CA) is an investment writer and author who has written sixteen business and biographical works, including the recent Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire-Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger (0-471-24473-2). Ms. Lowe is past editor of the San Diego Daily Transcript and Financial Editor of the San Diego Tribune. More than 200 of her business articles have appeared in such publications as Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Contents:
- Part I The Jack Welch Legacy 13
- Chapter 1 The House of Magic: How Welch Became an American Icon 27
- Chapter 2 The Gospel of Good Management 49
- Part II General Electric Then and Now 69
- Chapter 3 The Companies General Electric Dumped 81
- Chapter 4 The Companies General Electric Acquired 93
- Chapter 5 Building from Within 113
- Chapter 6 The Globalization of General Electric 129
- Chapter 7 Wired Welch 147
- Chapter 8 The Dark Side of the Legacy 167
- Part III The Future 189
- Chapter 9 The Meta-Corporation: General Electric after Welch 201
- Chapter 10 Welch after General Electric 223
- Chapter 11 Welch's Place in History 235
- Appendix a General Electric and Jack Welch: The Chronology 247
- Appendix b GE Values 255
- Appendix c The CERES Principles 257
- Appendix d General Electric Businesses 261
- Appendix e General Electric
- Nineteen-Year Performance Figures: 1980-1999 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0471413356
- OCLC:
- 45630126
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