Von Welch lernen heißt siegen lernen! In seinen zwanzig Jahren an der Spitze von General Electric hat er den Marktwert des Konzerns verzwanzigfacht, ihn zum profitabelsten Unternehmen der Welt gemacht. Den unermesslichen Schatz seines Managementwissens macht er nun zugänglich – fesselnd, klar, mit vielen packenden Beispielen.
»Ein bewundernswert straffes Handbuch über das Howto- do des Business. Kaum vorstellbar, dass es Manager geben könnte, die von diesem klugen und einnehmenden Buch nicht profitieren werden.« Publishers Weekly
»Sie werden nie wieder ein anderes Managementbuch benötigen!« Warren Buffett
Jack Welch, Vorstandsvorsitzender von General Electric, ist überall auf der Welt Vorbild für Manager aller Branchen. Mit beispielloser Dynamik hat der weltweit wohl meistbewunderte Unternehmenschef General Electric zu einem Symbol für erfolgreiches Wachstum, mitreißende Führung und rasant steigende Aktienkurse mit entsprechenden Dividenden gemacht. Erstmals liegt jetzt seine Autobiografie vor; sie erscheint weltweit gleichzeitig in 20 Ländern.
Nach »Winning« sah es so aus, als würde niemand je wieder ein anderes Managementbuch benötigen – so jedenfalls das Urteil des sagenumwobenen Investors Warren Buffett. Doch »Winning« brachte weltweit unzählige Manager dazu, sich über konkrete Fragen ihrer Arbeit auszutauschen. Jack und Suzy Welch erhielten tausende von Fragen zu Themen wie richtige Führung, globaler Wettbewerb, unnachgiebige Chefs oder funktionierendes Teamwork. In ihrem neuen Buch beantworten Jack und Suzy Welch die wichtigsten dieser Fragen. Sehr direkt und auf den Punkt führen sie den Dialog fort, der mit »Winning« begann. Das Ergebnis: »Winning – Die Antworten«. Ein bestechendes Buch von höchstem Nutzwert für jeden Manager.
Business the Jack Welch Way takes you behind the scenes to trace the remarkable career - and uncover the successful business strategies - of the man who's often called the most powerful CEO in America. What does he most value? How does he compare running gigantic GE to operating a corner grocery store? And how did the most acclaimed S.O.B. of the eighties transform himself into a role model of 21st-century management?
Jack Welch is perhaps the greatest corporate leader of the 20th century. When he first became CEO of General Electric in 1981 the company was worth $12 billion. Twenty years later it is worth a total of $280 billion. But Welch is more than just the leader of the most successful business in the world. He has revolutionised GE's entire corporate culture with his distinctive, highly personal management style: the individual appreciation of each of his 500 managers, the commitment to an informal but driven work style and the encouragement of candour are all part of the Welch approach. Following John Harvey Jones's MAKING IT HAPPEN and TROUBLESHOOTER, JACK is set to become the businessman's bible for the 21st century - an inspiration for a new generation of corporate players.
As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, Jack Welch has built its market cap by over $500 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation. At the same time, he's a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a "boundaryless" sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy. In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people (most notably his Irish mother) who shaped his life and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. Starting at GE in 1960 as an engineer earning $10,500, Jack learned the need for "getting out of the pile" when his first raise was the same as everyone else's. He stayed out of the corporate bureaucracy while running a $2 billion collection of GE businesses--in a sweater and blue jeans--out of a Hilton in Pittsfield, Mass. After avoiding GE's Fairfield, Connecticut, headquarters for years, Jack was eventually summoned by then Chairman Reg Jones, who was planning his succession. There ensued one of the most painful parts of his career--Jack's dark-horse struggle, filled with political tension, to make it to the CEO's chair. A hug from Reg confirmed Jack was the new boss--and started the GE transformation. Welch walks us through the "Neutron Jack" years, when GE's employment fell by more than 100,000 as part of a strategy to "fix, sell, or close" each business . . . and how he used the purchase of RCA to provide a foundation for the company's future earnings. There were mistakes, too--and Jack confronts them openly. In "Too Full of Myself," he describes one of the biggest blunders: the purchase of Kidder Peabody, which ran counter to GE's culture. The riveting story of his last year--the elaborate process of selecting a successor and the attempt to buy Honeywell--is also told in compelling detail. This book is laced with refreshing interludes, such as "A Short Reflection on Golf," that capture Jack's competitiveness and the importance of friendship in his life. Jack: Straight from the Gut is both a business classic and a deeply personal journey filled with passion and a sheer lust for life.
Mega-bestselling authors Jack and Suzy Welch return, nearly a decade after
publishing their international bestseller, WINNING, to tackle the most
pressing business challenges related to creating winning strategy, leading and
managing others, and building your own career, in an essential guide for every
person in business today and tomorrow.
The CEO of General Electric looks back on his distinguished career with the corporation and shares his personal philosophy of business and innovative managerial style. (Business & Finance)
