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Jack: Straight from the Gut Jack Welch with John A. Bryne 
 Format: Paperback, 480pp. ISBN: 9780446690683 Publisher: Business Plus Pub. Date: October 2003 Average Customer Review: 
For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024  Description and Reviews From The Publisher: This book is vintage Jack Welch: down to earth, powerful, and filled with common sense. As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, he has built its market cap by over $500 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation. At the same time, he's a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a "boundaryless" sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy. In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people (most notably his Irish mother) who shaped his life and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. Starting at GE in 1960 as an engineer earning $10,500, Jack learned the need for "getting out of the pile" when his first raise was the same as everyone else's. He stayed out of the corporate bureaucracy while running a $2 billion collection of GE businesses—in a sweater and blue jeans—out of a Hilton in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After avoiding GE's Fairfield, Connecticut headquarters for years, Jack was eventually summoned by then Chairman Reg Jones, who was planning his succession. There ensued one of the most painful parts of his career-Jack's dark-horse struggle, filled with political tension, to make it to the CEO's chair. A hug from Reg confirmed Jack was the new boss-and started the GE transformation. Welch walks us through the "Neutron Jack" years, when GE's employment rolls fell by more than 100,000 as part of a strategy to "fix, sell, or close" each business—and how he used the purchase of RCA to provide a foundation for the company's future earnings. There were mistakes, too—and Jack confronts them openly. In "Too Full of Myself," he describes one of the biggest blunders: the purchase of Kidder Peabody, which ran counter to GE's culture. The riveting story of his last year—the elaborate process of selecting a successor and the attempt to buy Honeywell—is also told in compelling detail. This book is laced with refreshing interludes, such as "A Short Reflection on Golf," that capture Jack's competitiveness and the importance of friendship in his life. JACK: STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT is destined to become both a business classic and a deeply personal journey filled with passion and a sheer lust for life. All of the author's net proceeds from this book are being donated to the John F. Welch, Jr. Foundation. Reviews All CEOs want to emulate him...they'll come closer if they listen carefully to what he has to say. —Warren Buffett, Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway An American treasure...teaches us how a leader with keen intellect, guts, and honor can impart courage to people around him... —Bernadine Healy, M.D., President and CEO, American Red Cross Jack...took an industrial giant and turned it into an industrial colossus with a heart and a soul and a brain. —Michael D. Eisner, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company Jack Welch...has finally disclosed his mysteries of management... —Nobuyuki Idei, Chairman and CEO, Sony Corporation Jack's vision and courage...and, of course, his success, make him the role model of entrepreneurs and managers worldwide. —Dr. Thomas Middelhoff, Chairman of the board, Bertelsmann AG
About the Author Known as America's #1 manager, Jack Welch received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1957 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois. He joined GE in 1960 and was elected vice president in 1972 and vice-chairman in 1979. In 1981, he became the eighth chairman and CEO in the company's 121-year history. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut. Table of Contents
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