Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385248830 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Decent read, lessons to be learned." according to frumiousb. This book looks dauntingly thick when you pick it up, but some brief exploration will show that including the interviews only Decent read, lessons to be learned. This book looks dauntingly thick when you pick it up, but some brief exploration will show that including the interviews only 311 pages are the Jack Welch story-- the rest of the book is Afterword, GE Timeline, GE Shareholder Reports, Bibliography and finally a section meant to be applied to your own business. I suppose that there are readers out there who wanted that level of completeness in their history of GE. I did not. I stopped reading after the afterword.The book covers GE during the period of Jack Welch's reign. Specifically, it charts his efforts in five major initiatives: Services, Six Sigma, Digitizat. 11 pages are the Jack Welch story-- the rest of the book is Afterword, GE Timeline, GE Shareholder Reports, Bibliography and finally a section meant to be applied to your own business. I suppose that there are readers out there who wanted that level of completeness in their history of GE. I did not. I stopped reading after the afterword.The book covers GE during the period of Jack Welch's reign. Specifically, it charts his efforts in five major initiatives: Services, Six Sigma, Digitizat. Reads like a fiction with Jack Welch as the Hero Jaewoo Kim Hero worship this book is without shame. Sure, the book calls Jack Welch an "As***le" but it is spoken as a compliment. This highly antagonistic, argumentative, determined, intelligent, and energetic hero is indeed a first class "As***le" without apologies. He is the consummate proof that one needs to be an excellent "As***le" to be considered as a great CEO\manager. If you are one of the nice guys who wants to be gentle, cheerful, and sympathetic to your 80+hr/week working employees, forget it, you can't be a successful manager at GE. You need to be like Jack, and take all the credit for the hard work your unde. Mr Jack R. Cox One of the best books written. Provides ideals for a driven person. I read everything that I can get from Mr. Tichy.Book delived in great shape and on time
Recommended for all business libraries.- Rebecca A. Furthermore, the addition of the "Handbook for Revolutionaries" (material developed at GE's executive education center in Crotonville, New York) makes Tichy appear to be a Welch convert, and the bias is sometimes too obvious. Unlike Robert Slater's The New GE: How Jack Welch Revived an American Institution ( LJ 10/1/92), authors Tichy, a professor and GE consultant, and Sherman, a Fortune reporter, offer a deeper analysis of Welch's leadership practices and philosophies. Lib.Copyrigh
$40,000 ad/promo. The closest advisor to the CEO of GE describes how Welch pursued an agenda of change, throwing out GE's established order and revolutionizing the company. 40,000 first printing. Tour.