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Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: How Jack Welch is Making General Electric the World's Most Competitive Company [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Noel M. Tichy (Author), Stratford Sherman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 459 pages
  • Publisher: HarperBusiness; illustrated edition edition (23 Mar 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0887306705
  • ISBN-13: 978-0887306709
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 214,579 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When Jack Welch became Chief Executive Officer of General Electric in 1981, the company was quickly approaching the grim fate that has overtaken GM, IBM, Sears and so many other blue-chip American corporations. Decades of bureaucracy had produced piles of red tape, unnecessary paperwork, muffled chains of command, and a culture that rewarded loyalty regardless of performance. Welch sold superfluous businesses, cut out layers of management, and pushed decisionmaking as far down the corporate ladder as possible, giving GE the quickness of a small business while retaining the advantages inherent in one of the ten largest companies in the world. Finally, he began reshaping the culture from one of complacency to one of bold innovation. In the process he revolutionized the art of management and led the most sucessful corporate transformation of all time. The books draws on the authors' years of work in and around General Electric and their unprecedented access to the CEO, Jack Welch, and many other GE employees. It is a dramatic narration of watershed events in the history of the business it offers many practical insights that apply to enterprises of any size, and defines a new paradigm for American business in the 1990s and beyond.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, 28 Jul 1999
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By far one of the best case studies I've ever read. Shows you why Jack Welch is considered by many to be the greatest manager of the 20th century
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5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring and insightful account of a winning business, 8 Jun 2009
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This is a marvelously inspring account of a winning business. With an obviously heavy focus on the impact that Welch had, this book does an excellent job of ensuring that the other key players in the saga which was the GE revolution are appropriately recognised.
Written superbly throughout and with interview excerpts and case studies illustrating the widesweeping and sometimes painful changes that the company underwent.
With the complete set of Welches annual letters to shareholders which provide an insight in how he relentlessly pursued his vision and the handbook for revolutionaries providing an indepth understanding on how to implement the ideas of the book.
Whilst it is billed as the unofficial handbook of GE the text here cannot simply be lifted and applied to any scenario, however as a book to stimulate ideas and creative thinking on how to apply yourself and build change within a business, no matter how large or small, this book is unsurpassed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for those concerned about good business, 8 Sep 1997
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Noel Tichy and Strat Sherman do a masterful job in presenting the natural genius of Jack Welch's business ideas. When he came to head GE, Welch was a man ahead of his time. Now, his ideas are considered to be fundamental to good business practice. Although I may not have agreed with every action he took in implementing his thinking, the business results Jack Welch has achieved cannot be disputed. Thanks to Noel and Strat for an insightful and entertaining account.
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5.0 out of 5 stars classic study of business transformation, with useful manual
This is still the best case study of an organization under-going radical change. Jack Welch started the process in 1981, , years before re-engineering became popular. Read more
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