- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (11 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747249350
- ISBN-13: 978-0747249351
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 420,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. In Jack: What I've Learned Leading a Great Company and Great People, Welch, with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne, recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century. Under his leadership, General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business. Beginning with Welch's childhood in Salem Massachusetts, the book quickly progresses from his first job in GE's plastics division to his ambitious rise up the GE corporate ladder, which culminated in 1981. What comes across most in this autobiography is Welch's passion for business as well as his remarkable directness and intolerance of what he calls "superficial congeniality"--a dislike that would help earn him the nickname "Neutron Jack." In spite of its 496 pages, Jack: Straight from the Gut is a quick read that any student or manager would do well to consider. --Harry C Edwards
Amazon.co.uk Review
It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. Under his leadership, General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business. In Jack: Straight from the Gut, Welch, with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne, recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century. Beginning with Welch's childhood in Salem, Massachusetts, the book quickly progresses from his first job in GE's plastics division to his ambitious rise up the GE corporate ladder, which culminated in 1981. What comes across most in this autobiography is Welch's passion for business as well as his remarkable directness and intolerance of what he calls "superficial congeniality"--a dislike that would help earn him the nickname "Neutron Jack". In spite of its 496 pages, Jack: Straight from the Gut is a quick read that any student or manager would do well to peruse.--Harry C. Edwards
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This guy created more shareholder wealth than anyone else ever... this is a great run down of what he did and why he did it. It isn't a management textbook, but if you read between the lines, you can infer what it was that made him great. My take is a complete intolerance of mediocrity and a focus so total it's scary. Read it - it's long, but quick and light and peppered with anecdotes.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a frequent flyer I often look for books that are informative and an easy read ... this fits the bill perfectly.
"Jack" offers a wonderful insight into the life of a CEO.
This book not only provides practical descriptions of how some of GE's great improvement programmes (six sigma, boundaryless behaviour, globalisation) were conceptualised and implemented but also outlines the amazing career of a young man from Irish immigrant parents to arguably one of the worlds' most succesful CEOs.
His frank and candid admissions of the mistakes he made throughout his long career (blowing up a factory, arrogance, hiring the wrong guy) not only represent a refreshing departure from the norm, but are also used to explain much of his later behaviour and success.
I would highly recommend this to anyone looking skywards to that CEO spot.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It's now been almost 6 months since I read "Jack: What I've Learned Leading a Great Company and Great People", and I still almost daily find myself pondering on, and referring to, Neutron Jack's inspirational book. When I started reading the book I obviously expected a lot of american self-glorification and not least justification, but what I hadn't expected was the utter abundance of anecdotes and candid views on anything from the game of golf over family matters to what it's all about: big business! And here's the story from the Jedi-master of Big Business. This book takes you from his childhood days as a caddy for the "suits" at the local golf-club, through the accidental blowing up of a manufacturing unit, to high times with the big boys in business and politics.
And if you, like me, have a degree in business, order this book now. Never before have management tools and ideas been presented to you with such logics and candid hindsight realisation. Jack Welch's 20 years as CEO and Chairman of The General Electric Company, the biggest corporation in the world, proves that his ideas and leadership made the difference!
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From the Gut
Haven't read many books since I left Uni, some 20 yrs ago, but I found this book so interesting and informative that I finished it in 2 wks and purchased 2 more by the same author.
Published 10 months ago by Sean B
My first business autobiography
This was the first business autobiography I read. Even though I owned a print back in my country, I had to revisit this book and got it for the second time. Read more
Published 12 months ago by UNI-student
Interesting book
A good book to read. Interesting to see how others run a large business. Easy read and something you can pick up and read again and again.Great value and great service.
Published on 9 Feb 2010 by MG0007
Straight from the gut
The item arrived quite promptly but the condition was not quite as I expected but nonetheless it is in acceptable condition.
Published on 30 Dec 2009 by Mr. And Mrs D. Clarke
People Are Important To Business
Jack Welch was Chairman and CEO of General Electric for twenty years and this is a book about his time from joining to leaving the company that became his life. Read more
Published on 29 April 2005 by Curns
Jack Has the Last Word
Review Summary: This autobiography of Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001, primarily focuses on the key initiatives (such as focusing on... Read more
Published on 17 July 2004 by Donald Mitchell
How much time do you want to spend reading?
Good book, interesting stories, lots of great information, but terribly long winded! If you are just looking for the nuts and bolts part of the philosophy, I suggest the much... Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2003 by S. Carbrey
Great book, bad philosophy
Fast paced and full of energy, JW lets you feel each of his internal promotions and business deals with him . Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2003 by C. Edwards
A view of corporate America from the inside
In the Cult of the CEO, Jack Welch is a High Priest. This book reveals how he rose within GE and subsequently transformed it. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2003 by C. M. Perkins
Great read...
This book is about a legendary CEO who started as a simple student. It shows how he climbs the ladder and takes the company to the highest-high GE experienced. Read more
Published on 16 Dec 2002 by Ahmar Abbas
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