Jack Welch's autobiography cri
What do you feel if you were the leader of 300,000 employees? How would you keep a giant company to be competitive and prosperous? Here comes Jack Welch, the "greatest manager of 20th Century". I picked up Jack's autobiography largely because of his accomplishment in G.E. I liked the book even by looking at the cover -- His smile with confidence and achievement. Rather than a common autobiography as showing personal affairs or some kind of vague leadership, this book illustrates management skills that can be really learned and mastered. I'm very glad about my choice, no other book could give me business experience like this much and real. Welch begins this book by talking about his youth. His characteristic is fully influenced by his Mom. His mom gives him confidence which servers his whole life. Examples were helping help conquering his stuttering, and have his stories reported on newspapers. After his youth stories, he then moves quickly into his college experience, first at University of Massachusetts, and later at University of Illinois. Graduated at Illinois with his PhD Degree, he got married to his first wife, Carolyn. After that, he started looking for a job and then being a G.E. engineer. At the beginning in G.E
He eliminated some business that with little future, made many new profitable businesses. This book is also a must read for all management students and anybody who are interested in business. During his time as the CEO, he eliminated much bureaucracy by cutting many jobs off and reducing the 12 wasteful layers to 6. " Jack let project group grow by itself. fÜ He ranked leaders as A (the stars, top 20%), B (vital 70%) and C (last 10%), rewards stars, kiss last 10% goodbye. For other big company that is experiencing slow growth, this is a good chance for their managers to learn how G. fÜ "The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. After that, he quickly moved up, got several promotions in a short time, and eventually achieved his goal to be the CEO. For investors and shareholders, this book is a great source to know G. The efforts of acquire RCA, NBC, and later the success of G. For small-medium companies, they can appreciate and use the advantages to be small company.
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