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

by Robert Slater

Jack Welch is the most influential CEO in America and under his leadership GE has emerged as one of the world's premier corporations. This is a hands-on interactive book designed to show managers how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071354816
• ISBN13: 9780071354813
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Jack Welch Way is the Only Way

I have read everything that has ever been written about the golden boy of corporate america - Jack Welch. He is a genious for our times and this book is just another example of his legendary managerial style. An easy read that is filled with key information to turn any company into an industry leader and any manager into a corporate leader. This book details everything a manager will ever need to know. A MUST BUY !!!!!!

Lessons from the Legendary Leader.

"Jack Welch is arguably the most lauded CEO in the world...Such leading magazines as Time, Fortune, and Business Week all lavished praise upon him. They described him at times as the best CEO in America; at times, these magazines credited GE with being the best-run company in the nation...Welch built GE into the most successful American corporation of the late twentieth century by forging and then implementing a series of business strategies that have become his trademark: Business is simple. Don't make business overly complicated. Face reality. Don't be afraid of change. Fight bureaucracy. Get boundaryless. Use the brains of your workers. Find the best ideas, inside or outside your company, and then put those ideas into practice. These strategies and others have formed the building blocks of Jack Welch's battle for corporate revolution...The Welch strategies have been described in a number of popular business books...Most of these books describe the aforementioned business strategies, and others as well, and give an excellent overview of what Welch and GE have accomplished. What The GE Way Fieldbook sets out to accomplish is not simply to explain the strategies but to offer a blueprint of how other companies can implement those strategies expeditiously and seamlessly in their own business...In contrast with the other fieldbooks, The GE Way Fieldbook is the first of its kind to focus on the inner workings and business strategies of a specific company...While we include much of the GE story throughout the book, the primary objective is to provide a road map for those wishing to implement GE's practices in their own organizations. As a result, most chapters include not only textual material but also self-assessment exercises, action steps, and internal GE documents. It is worth noting that these documents, most of which have been provided by General Electric, have never appeared in book form" (pp.1-2).In this context, Robert Slater divides his book into two main sections. But, in this review, I only focus on the first section as follows.I. The GE Way: A Fieldbook for Corporate Revolution: In this section, he focuses on the different GE business strategies and initiatives within four learning modules.1. The Leadership Module (Chapters 1-4): In this module, Slater explains:* five characteristics of best quality leaders described by Jack Welch in 1997.* key GE leadership ingredients-the four E:energy, energizer, edge, and execution-, and authentic leadership model of GE as refined views of Welch on leadership in 1999.* advices of GE's successful executives to GE's senior and middle-level executives all around the world: (1) Performance: Focus on current job performance...,(2) Expertise: Become proficient in one business/technical area...,(3) Ownership: Don't whine about your career...,(4) Challenge and Visibility: Take the hard job...,(5) Mentors/Supporters/Role Models: Broaden your base support...,(6) Global Experience/Cultural Breadth: Expose yourse

If you want to learn how GE operates, then read this book

This book captures the areas that are important to the businesses of GE and explains them well enough that a non-employee can understand. Being a past employee of GEIS, I found that the book explained the areas as they really are. No fluff. The book is easily set up as modules so there is no need to worry about reading one chapter to understand the next. Great Tool!

The Ge Way Fieldbook: Jack Welch's Battle Plan for Corporate

If you believe in Welch and want to understand how he made it happen then this is the book. No editorial prose. Basics and common sense suberbly executed.......