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5.0 out of 5 stars Not literature, but a great insight, 13 Nov 2001

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This review is from: Jack: What I've Learned Leading a Great Company and Great People (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great insight into the Life of a CEO, 26 Nov 2001

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This review is from: Jack: What I've Learned Leading a Great Company and Great People (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars What I've Learned Reading a Great Story from a Great Leader, 24 Jan 2003

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This review is from: Jack: What I've Learned Leading a Great Company and Great People (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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