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Jack Welch and the GE way : management insights and leadership secrets of the legendary CEO / Robert Slater.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slater, Robert, 1943-2014, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welch, Jack, 1935-2020.
- Welch, Jack.
- General Electric Company--Management.
- General Electric Company.
- Chief executive officers--United States--Biography.
- Chief executive officers.
- Leadership--United States.
- Leadership.
- Industrial management--United States.
- Industrial management.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 328 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Jack Welch &
- The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Jack Welch Launches His Revolution
- PART 1: Act Like a Leader, Not a Manager
- Chapter 1: Embrace Change, Don't Fear It
- Chapter 2: Stop Managing, Start Leading
- Chapter 3: Cultivate Managers Who Share Your Vision
- Chapter 4: Face Reality, Then Act Decisively
- Chapter 5: Be Simple, Be Consistent, and Hammer Your Message Home
- PART II: Building the Market-Leading Company
- Chapter 6: Be Number 1 or Number 2, But Don't Narrow Your Market
- Chapter 7: Look for the Quantum Leap!
- Chapter 8: Fix, Close, or Sell: Reviving NBC
- Chapter 9: Don't Focus on the Numbers
- Chapter 10: Plagiarize-It's Legitimate: Create a Learning Culture
- PART III: Forging the Boundaryless Organization
- Chapter 11: Get Rid of the Managers, Get Rid of the Bureaucracy
- Chapter 12: Be Lean and Agile Like a Small Company
- Chapter 13: Tear Down the Boundaries
- PART IV: Harnessing Your People for Competitive Advantage
- Chapter 14: Three Secrets: Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence
- Chapter 15: Use the Brains of Every Worker-Involve Everyone
- Chapter 16: Take the "Boss Element" Out of Your Company
- Chapter 17: Create an Atmosphere Where Workers Feel Free to Speak Out
- Chapter 18: S-t-r-e-t-c-h! Reach for the Stars!
- PART V: Push Service and Globalization for Double-Digit Growth
- Chapter 19: Grow Your Service Business-It's the Wave of the Future
- Chapter 20: Look to Financial Services to Bring in Earnings
- Chapter 21: Have Global Brains-and Build Diverse and Global Teams
- PART VI: Drive Quality throughout the Organization
- Chapter 22: Live Quality-and Drive Cost and Speed for Competitive Advantage
- Chapter 23: Make Quality the Job of Every Employee.
- Chapter 24: To Achieve Quality: Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control
- PART VII: The Toughest Boss/Most Admired Manager in America
- Chapter 25: Jack Welch Deals with Adversity
- Chapter 26: Jack Welch Deals with the Next Generation
- PART VIII: Jack Welch's Vision for the Millennium
- Chapter 27: Bolstering General Electric
- Chapter 28: Advice for Other Companies
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Endnote
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-316) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-07-136905-8
- OCLC:
- 1164492743
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