Though basing itself on material found in Jack Welch and the GE Way, this fieldbook will have a completely new feel to it, providing a step-by-step guide through Jack Welch's business strategies and containing diagnostic exercises, practice sessions, practical advice, and carefully-developed questionnaires; it will also contain rarely-seen GE presentations of its business strategies; lengthyexcerpts from Jack Welch's secret talks with this top management; and a special section explaining Welch's unique and powerful communication techniques, honed during extensive sessions at the company's management institute in Crotonville, New York. Throughout the book, we will present a series of exhibits, including GE presentations, excerpts of important speeches by Jack Welch, and other GE-generated material aimed at helping employees put Welch's ideas and strategies into practice. This hands-on implementation manual will offer a variety of techniques and tools, some anecdotal, some hands-on and interactive, that will provide readers with recipes for action so that hey can apply The GE Way very directly, very concretely to their businesses. The fieldbook aims partly, but by no means entirely, at the thousands of readers of Jack Welch and the GE Way who have become intrigued by Welch's achievements, but want guidance in applying his strategies to their own business environment.10
"If management is an art, then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master painter." - BusinessWeek Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in business history. Welch s groundbreaking programs including Six Sigma and Work-Out along with his numerous strategies on business leadership have helped transform GE into the global benchmark for maximized productivity and labor efficiency. Now, The GE Way Fieldbook explains how you can implement the same programs that helped turn GE into a $100 billion juggernaut. Drawing from his unprecedented access to GE s top-level corridors of power including a never-before-published full-length interview with Jack Welch veteran business author Robert Slater packs innovative strategies, easy-to-use diagnostic exercises, detailed questionnaires, and more into the most hands-on, applications-oriented book ever written on General Electric. Only in The GE Way Fieldbook will you find: "The Boca Raton Speeches" Never-before-seen excerpts taken from Jack Welch s internal speeches to GE employees More than 100 exercises, overheads, and exhibits from the files of Jack Welch and GE The most complete treatment of GE s Six Sigma program ever published Step-by-step action plans that are blueprints for implementing Six Sigma and Work-Out and creating the boundaryless organization The fieldbook has become one of today s most popular, effective teaching tools but never before has one focused on the inner workings and strategies of a specific company. Let The GE Way Fieldbook give you an inside look at the stunningly successful Jack Welch era at GE, provide the techniques and tools you need to focus every worker in your organization on progress and growth, and outline a strategic roadmap for implementing GE s business practices and removing the boundaries to success within your own organization.
"If management is an art, then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master painter." - BusinessWeek Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in business history. Welch s groundbreaking programs including Six Sigma and Work-Out along with his numerous strategies on business leadership have helped transform GE into the global benchmark for maximized productivity and labor efficiency. Now, The GE Way Fieldbook explains how you can implement the same programs that helped turn GE into a $100 billion juggernaut. Drawing from his unprecedented access to GE s top-level corridors of power including a never-before-published full-length interview with Jack Welch veteran business author Robert Slater packs innovative strategies, easy-to-use diagnostic exercises, detailed questionnaires, and more into the most hands-on, applications-oriented book ever written on General Electric. Only in The GE Way Fieldbook will you find: "The Boca Raton Speeches" Never-before-seen excerpts taken from Jack Welch s internal speeches to GE employees More than 100 exercises, overheads, and exhibits from the files of Jack Welch and GE The most complete treatment of GE s Six Sigma program ever published Step-by-step action plans that are blueprints for implementing Six Sigma and Work-Out and creating the boundaryless organization The fieldbook has become one of today s most popular, effective teaching tools but never before has one focused on the inner workings and strategies of a specific company. Let The GE Way Fieldbook give you an inside look at the stunningly successful Jack Welch era at GE, provide the techniques and tools you need to focus every worker in your organization on progress and growth, and outline a strategic roadmap for implementing GE s business practices and removing the boundaries to success within your own organization.