Janet C Lowe, Margaret A Lowe

Gebundenes Buch

Welch

An American Icon

Beschreibung

Finanz- und Investmentexperten, Investoren, Unternehmer Jack Welch ist Chairman und CEO von General Electric. Mit seinem Managementstil, seiner vorausschauenden Einstellung zur neuen Technologie und durch die Förderung der Kreativität seiner Mitarbeiter hat er GE zu einem Unternehmen gemacht, das sich in der New Economy behaupten kann. "Welch - An American Icon" untersucht, was Jack Welch für die amerikanischen Unternehmenswelt geleistet hat. Enthalten sind Interviews von CEOs anderer führender Unternehmen, die einmal unter Welch gearbeitet haben und von ihm ausgebildet wurden sowie Interviews mit zahlreichen GE Führungskräften, die anschaulich demonstrieren, wie Welch einen schwächelnden Dinosaurier in einen unbestrittenen Technologieführer verwandelt hat. Das Buch untersucht auch Welchs unverwechselbare Einstellung zum Handel - sei hart, realistisch, innovativ, wettbewerbsfähig und vor allem fair. Eine interessante Lektüre - nicht nur für Führungskräfte.

Autor

JANET LOWE is the bestselling author of numerous business books including Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire-Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger (Wiley) and Value Investing Made Easy. Formerly the financial editor of the San Diego Tribune, she has written more than 200 business articles for such publications as Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Los Angeles Times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780471413356
• ISBN-10: 0471413356
• Artikelnr.: 09741105

Rezensionen

Welch: An American Icon by Janet Lowe. If Jack Welch isn't a household name, he should be, Lowe says. "Welch is a guy who makes a lot of things happen, all kinds of things that affect the lives of all of us, even when we're not aware of it." (USA Today September 10, 2001)

"When business writer Lowe (Damn Right, etc.) approached GE Chairman Jack Welch about a book (Jack Welch Speaks, her first book on him), "[h]e said he did not see any purpose in -yet another book." Lowe's respectable, ultimately redundant book portrays Welch as a captain of industry who commands the kind of attention that top executives crave and almost never get. The near-mythical story of GE's wrenching turnaround earns Welch abundant positive and negative buzz.

Unlike many of Welch's contemporaries, he has stayed with the same company for the long run (since 1960), becoming chairman in 1981 and immediately restructuring the massive conglomerate, earning the moniker "Neutron Jack" because of his huge layoffs along the way. Through a combination of radical structural changes, a near-fanatical devotion to the Six Stigma management system and an acquisition blitzkrieg, GE leapt into the 21st century, taking no prisoners. Critics noted that under his stewardship, deep workforce reductions accompanied Welch's own ballooning salary and a tendency to treat workers and their hometowns as dispensable (Welch has said, "Ideally, you'd have every plant you own on a barge, to move with currencies and changes in the economy"). Lowe promises a balanced look Welch that pulls no punches; for the most part, she delivers. But the book's distracting, episodic style (a lot of the material was left over from the first book) makes it seem little more than an attempt to capitalize on curiosity about Welch prior to the publication of his much touted upcoming book. Several abundant appendices are informative but do little to explain Welch's icon status." (Publishers Weekly, April 2001)

"...this book is a good read..." (Ambassador, September 2001)