The GE Way Fieldbook : Jack Welch's Battle Plan for Corporate Revolution
Robert Slater





Format: Paperback, 288pp.
ISBN: 9780071354813
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date: December 1999

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Strategic tools and techniques for implementing GE leader Jack Welch’s innovative 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.” Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in business history. Welch’s ground breaking 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 road map for implementing GE’s business practices—and removing the boundaries to success—within your own organization.


About the Author

Robert Slater is the author of a number of bestselling business books, including four books on Jack Welch. A veteran journalist with more than 25 years of experience with Time, Newsweek, and UPI, Slater is widely regarded as one of the worlds foremost authorities on General Electric and Jack Welch.


Table of Contents

Book I:	The GE Way: A Fieldbook for Corporate Revolution
I:	The Leadership Module
	Leadership I: Management Is Not Complicated
	Leadership II: Ask the Right Questions
	Leadership III: People Are Your Greatest Asset
	Leadership IV: Reward Your Best People
II:	The Empowerment Module
	Work-Out I: Using the Brains of All Your Workers
	Work-Out II: A Work-Out Instruction Guide
III:	The Organization Module
	The Boundaryless Enterprise
	Learning Culture I: Creating the Learning Culture
	Learning Culture II: Stealing Shamelessly
	Learning Culture III: Learning from Your Employees
IV:	The Customer Module
	Six Sigma I: Setting the Stage
	Six Sigma II: Designing a Six Sigma Program
	Six Sigma III: Putting It Into Practice
	Six Sigma IV: How Sigma Has Worked at GE
	The GE Tool-Kit
Book II:	The GE Way: The CEO in the Field
	The Jack Welch Interview
	The Jack Welch Speeches
	The Jack Welch Letter to Share Owners, Employees and Customers
	From the Files of Jack Welch (and more)

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