Jack read everything sent to him. He knew more than you. “When you went up there, you had a discussion that exhilarated you, and you learned something, or he told you something you didn’t know,” he continued. “And you had to go back and figure out the answer to his question, and it lifted all of us.” But it was different working with Jeff. “It was like walking into a cold shower when you walked into your first meeting with Immelt, because he didn’t read the deck,” he said. That seeming indifference was noticed. “He lost us,” he said. “And this is one thing that I know as a leader: if you want
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