Jack: Straight from the Gut

Description

Jack Welch was 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 was more than just the leader of the most successful business in the world. He 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 were all part of the Welch approach. Following John Harvey Jones’s Making it Happen and Troubleshooter, Jack has already become the businessman’s bible for the 21st century – an inspiration for a new generation of corporate players.

Reviews

“…a book that almost everyone still interested in business…can’t afford to ignore…a very good yarn…” — Wall Street Journal, 9/21/01

“…will be of interest to anyone who really cares about business…” — New York Newsday, 10/8/01

“All CEOs want to emulate him…they’ll come closer if they listen carefully to what he has to say.” — Warren Buffett, Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway

“An American treasure…teaches us how a leader with keen intellect, guts, and honor can impart courage to people around him…” — Bernadine Healy, M.D., President and CEO, American Red Cross

“Jack Welch…has finally disclosed his mysteries of management…” — Nobuyuki Idei, Chairman and CEO, Sony Corporation

“Jack’s vision and courage…and, of course, his success, make him the role model of entrepreneurs and managers worldwide.” — Dr. Thomas Middelhoff, Chairman of the board, Bertelsmann AG

“Jack…took an industrial giant and turned it into an industrial colossus with a heart and a soul and a brain.” — Michael D. Eisner, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company

Author Biography

Jack Welch was born in 1935 in Peabody, Massachusetts, the son of a Boston & Maine train conductor. He joined the General Electric Co in 1960 and was CEO of the company from 1981 to 2001.