September 2002
Beginner
108 pages
2h 11m
English

As we became leaner, we found ourselves communicating better, with fewer interpreters and fewer filters. We found that with fewer layers we had wider spans of management. We weren’t managing better. We were managing less, and that was better.
One reason Jack Welch had an enormous impact on the business community was that he headed one of the world’s most respected, and most imitated, companies. Over the decades, whenever General Electric came up with a new management style, others in American business sought to emulate that style. For example:
In the 1950s: GE decentralized, ...
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