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29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch
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29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch

by Robert Slater
September 2002
Beginner
108 pages
2h 11m
English
McGraw-Hill
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LEADERSHIP SECRET 7KEEP WATCH FOR WAYS TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES AND TO BECOME MORE COMPETITIVE

FROM THE FILES OF JACK WELCH

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The world is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It slows you down.

Before Jack Welch’s arrival at GE, the company was steaming full throttle toward the cliff edge.

Yes, the balance sheet was strong. But only a handful of the company’s 350 business units dominated their markets. The only GE businesses doing well on a global basis were plastics, gas turbines, and aircraft engines (and overseas, only gas turbines were dominant). Something like 80 percent of GE’s earnings still came from its traditional ...

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