Before reading this book (and specially post reading Steve Jobs biography and watching 'The Facebook') I used to think that being the CEO of a company must be the coolest job ever. If you have ever been a part of a multinational corporation or aspire to be one, this has to be one of the most intriguing and inspiring books ever written(On the other hand if you are not interested in businesses or corporations, move on, you won't decipher half of the stuff and hence won't appreciate the words of the great man). Where is the TRUE rewards and recognition for everyone who works hard, delivers results and top performance that moves the company to the next level - was GE not even looking at women or promoting women or was it such a foreign concept even in the 1980s and 1990s?Įven then, I would have had higher expectations of such a visionary man. Where are the women Jack? Where is the diversity? However, with as much vision and tenacity and knack for change that Jack had, I am baffled and shocked that he did not have any women on his staff, any diversity whatsoever except for the white male, and that he did not even CONSIDER women for positions, it certainly never came up in the book and he made sure to name every single person that ever worked for him. GE's move to six-sigma and quality was aligned with what I hoped would result with good execution. Nonetheless, Jack's intolerance for bureacracy was refreshing. Is this still possible in large corporations? It certainly wasn't entirely this way where I worked at a Fortune 100. I enjoyed so much to hear that rewards and recognition and advancement in GE are results-oriented. The names of everyone was hard to keep up with. This is a long dry and somewhat boring book, but if you can get past that, you get a great fabulous story on leadership, integrity, meritrocracy, and corporate america, at least when Welch was running his place over at GE.
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