false 866222 24 If you judge books by their covers, Jack Welch's <I>Winning</I> certainly grabs your attention. Testimonials on the back come from none other than Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rudy Giuliani, and Tom Brokaw, and other praise comes from <I>Fortune</I>, <I>Business Week</I>, and <I>Financial Times</I>. As the legendary retired CEO of General Electric, Welch has won many friends and admirers in high places. In this latest book, he strives to show why. <I>Winning</I> describes the management wisdom that Welch built up through four and a half decades of work at GE, as he transformed the industrial giant from a sleepy "Old Economy" company with a market capitalization of $4 billion to a dynamic new one worth nearly half a trillion dollars.<p> Welch's first book, <I>Jack: Straight from the Gut</I>, was structured more as a conventional CEO memoir, with stories of early career adventures, deals won and lost, boardroom encounters, and Welch's process and philosophy that helped propel his success as a manager. In <I>Winning</I>, Welch focuses on his actual management techniques. He starts with an overview of cultural values such as candor, differentiation among employees, and inclusion of all voices in decision-making. In the second section he covers issues around one's own company or organization: the importance of hiring, firing, the people management in between, and a few other juicy topics like crisis management. From there, Welch moves into a discussion of competition, and the external factors that can influence a company's success: strategy, budgeting, and mergers and acquisitions. Welch takes a more personal turn later with a focus on individual career issues--how to find the right job, get promoted, and deal with a bad boss--and then a final section on what he calls "Tying Up Loose Ends." Those interested in the human side of great leaders will find this last section especially appealing. In it, Welch answers the most interesting questions that he's received in the last several years while traveling the globe addressing audiences of executives and business-school students. Perhaps the funniest question in this section comes at the very end, posed originally by a businessman in Frankfurt, who queried Welch on whether he thought he'd go to heaven (we won't give away the ending).<p> While different from the steadier stream of war stories and real-life examples of Welch's first book, <I>Winning</I> is a very worthwhile addition to any management bookshelf. It's not often that a CEO described as the century's best retires, and then chooses to expound on such a wide range of management topics. Also, aside from the commentary on always-relevant issues like employee performance reviews and quality control, Welch suffuses this book with his pugnacious spirit. The Massachusetts native who fought his way to the top of the world's most valuable company was in many ways the embodiment of "Winning," and this spirit alone will provide readers an enjoyable read. <I>--Peter Han</I> 856917 4 2005 Winning total:725|5:157|4:281|3:228|2:51|1:8| 725 2703 1080 125 866222 0060753943 9780060753948 634 109 3.73 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179021829m/866222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866222.Winning 0 1 false Wed Jan 23 00:16:24 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 00:17:23 -0800 2008
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Differentiation, the idea of merit based business practice is ideal for any team, business, or group. Look at the Yankees – the best players get the most money, the worst players get cut. Yet they still pull for each other and ...more...]]> 866222 0060753943 9780060753948 634 109 3.73 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179021829m/866222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866222.Winning 4 0 false Thu Sep 20 20:39:14 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 20:40:26 -0700 2007
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