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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 16ACT LIKE A SMALL COMPANY

FROM THE FILES OF JACK WELCH

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Small companies move faster. They know the penalties for hesitation in the marketplace. What we are trying relentlessly to do is get that small-company soul—and small-company speed—inside our big-company body.

The goal of most big corporations is to get still bigger. Bigness is considered a virtue (or at least a necessary evil) in the corporate environment.

When Jack Welch took over at GE, the company was then one of the largest in America, with more than 400,000 employees. Through restructuring and downsizing, Welch pared the company down to 270,000 employees. But meanwhile, ...

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