Management Ebooks: "Jack: Straight from the Gut"

They called him Neutron Jack. They called him the world's toughest boss. And then Fortune called him "The Manager of the Century." In his twenty-year career at the helm of General Electric, Jack Welch defied conventional wisdom and turned an aging behemoth of a corporation into a lean, mean engine of growth and corporate innovation. In this remarkable autobiography-a classic business book and runaway New York Times bestseller now updated with a new afterword by the author-Jack Welch takes us on the rough-and-tumble ride that has been his remarkable life.

From his working-class childhood to his early days in G.E. Plastics to his life at the top of the world's most successful company, Welch tells his intensely personal story with his well-known fire and candor. And although it chronicles billion-dollar deals and high-stakes corporate standoffs, Jack is ultimately a story about people-from a man who based his career on demanding only the best from others and from himself.

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Management Ebooks: "Jack Welch Speaks"

Considered one of the most dynamic CEOs of all time, Jack Welch transformed General Electric from an aging electronics manufacturer beset by foreign competitors into a world-class company that provided superb returns to investors. Even in retirement, Welch's voice is heard around the world, as he continues to address issues such as corporate management and personal and business success.

Now, in this completely updated edition of Jack Welch Speaks, bestselling author Janet Lowe presents the insights, visions, and philosophies that have guided Welch during his extraordinary career at GE and his post-GE life. Throughout these pages, Lowe intersperses her comments with extensive quotes from Welch on executive compensation, business ethics, and other issues that continue to plague corporate America. Lowe also digs deep to find theideas and values that enabled Welch to successfully reposition GE in the global marketplace.

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Jack Welch Speaks offers an objective assessment of Welch's career—from the management principles that helped him excel to the controversy surrounding his compensation package—and provides lessons in leadership that cannot be found anywhere else. Here's just a sample of what you'll find inside:

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you became a leader, success is about growing others."

"When you're running an institution, you're always scared at first. You're afraid you might break it."

"Business is like any game. It has players, a language, a complex history, rules, controversies, and rhythm."

"If someone tells me 'I'm working 90 hours a week,' I say, 'You're doing something terribly wrong.' I go skiing on the weekend, I go out with my buddies on Friday and party. You've got to do the same or you've got a bad deal."

With this book as your guide, you'll not only learn how Jack Welch became one of the world's most-lauded CEOs, but you'll also discover exactly what it takes to achieve unparalleled success in today's dynamic business environment.

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Management Ebooks: "29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch"

Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch follows in Welch's footsteps, boiling the legendary CEO's leadership successes down to 29 strategies that made GE the world's most competitive company­­and Welch the world's most successful and admired CEO.

This all-in-one Welch reference updates material from Robert Slater's bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten, and is today's ultimate fast-paced, no-nonsense handbook on the ways of Jack Welch. It taps into the heart of Welch's courage, innovation, and leadership success by examining simple leadership secrets that include:

• Managing less is managing better
• Make quality the job of every employee
• Have global brains and vision

About the Author

Robert Slater is the author of a number of bestselling business books, including four books on Jack Welch. A veteran journalist with more than 25 years of experience with Time, Newsweek, and UPI, Slater is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on General Electric and Jack Welch.

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Management Ebooks: Jack Welch "Winning: The Answers"

In Winning, their 2005 international bestseller, Jack and Suzy Welch created a rare document, both a philosophical treatise on fundamental business practices and a gritty how-to manual, all of it delivered with Jack's trademark candor and can-do optimism. It seemed as if "no other management book," in the words of legendary investor Warren E. Buffett, would "ever be needed."

Instead, Winning uncovered an insatiable thirst to talk about work. Since the book's publication, the Welches have received literally thousands of questions from college students and seasoned professionals alike, on subjects ranging from leadership and global competition to tough bosses and building teamwork. Indeed, questions about virtually every business and career challenge have poured in—some familiar, others surprising, many urgent and probing, and all of them powerfully real.

Winning: The Answers takes on the most relevant of these questions, and in doing so, its candid, hard-hitting responses expand and extend the conversation Jack and Suzy Welch began with Winning. It is a dialogue that is sure to be both compelling and immensely useful to anyone and everyone engaged in the vital work of helping an organization grow and thrive.

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Management Ebooks: Jack Welch "Winning"

A Jack Welch siempre le han hecho preguntas sobre cómo mejorar en los negocios. Incluso tras su retiro como Presidente y CEO de General Electric en 2001, todo el mundo le pide consejos sobre los más variados temas: desde cómo soportar la competencia china hasta cuáles son las mejores estrategias comerciales.

Sin embargo, la mayoría de estas preguntas se reducen a una única pregunta: ¿Qué hace falta para triunfar? Triunfar es posible, pero es preciso seguir ciertas pautas. Nadie mejor que Welch, con su gran experiencia gerencial, para revelarnos dichas pautas.

En este libro, Jack Welch nos presenta una serie de consejos que convergen todos en un único fin: Triunfar. Algunos de los temas tratadas son: misión y valores, relación con los empleados, liderazgo, como contratar empleados, gestión del cambio y desarrollo personal, entre otro.

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Gurús del Management: Jack Welch

Nacido en 1935 en Massachusetts, hijo de un maquinista ferroviario, Jack Welch se doctoró en Ingeniería Química en 1960, este mismo año entró a trabajar para la multinacional General Electric. Sin embargo, al poco tiempo presentó su renuncia, descontento con el salario y con los métodos ultra burocráticos de la empresa.

Su jefe, que veía en él un talento inusual, lo invitó a cenar para hacerlo desistir de su idea, prometiéndole reubicarlo en otro puesto de la corporación. Aquella cena de cuatro horas sería un hito central en la historia de General Electric.

Welch hizo una carrera meteórica, alcanzando la vicepresidencia de la compañía con apenas 37 años. Finalmente, en 1981, a los 45 años, se convirtió en el CEO más joven de la historia de la empresa fundada un siglo atrás por el genial ionventor, Thomas Alva Edison.

Jack Welch, trabajó infatigablemente durante toda la década de los ochenta para hacer de General Electric, una compañía dinámica y competitiva. Reestructturó la empresa, depuró la burocracia y adoptó métodos de eficacia novedosos y temibles. Todos llos años, Welch despedía al 10% de los Gerentes con peores resultados mientras que premiaba a los 20% mejores con bonos salariales y stock-options. El tijeretazo se hizo sentir. De los 411.000 empleados de General Electric en 1980 sólo quedaban unos 300.000 en 1985.

En los años noventa, con General Electric ya reestructurada, Welch se decidió a modernizarla añadiendo actividades de servicios a sus tradicionales ventas de artículos de consumo. Con un agresivo programa de adquisiciones, diversificó los negocios de la compañía.

Balance de su gobiero

Desde que llego a ser CEO en 1981 hasta su retirada en el 2001, la facturación de General Electric se quintuplicó desde 26.000 millones a los 130.000 millones de dólares. Elegido el Manager del Siglo en 1999 por la revista Fortune, hoy Jack Welch se dedica al golf mientras disfruta de un plan de retiro de 8 millones de dólares anuales.

Libros

• At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit

• Jack: Straight Fron The Gut

• The New GE: How Jack Welch Revived an American Institution

• Winning by Jack and Suzy Welch