كتاب ممتع في تفاصيله ممتع في أسلوبه سيضع أمامك خارطة لن تهديك اتجاهات واضحة ولكنها سترسم معالم الطريق الاساسية جميل ان تقرأه قبل أوانه
العظماء أناس احبوا ما عملوا وكان هو شغفهم في الحياة لا يهم كيف حققوا ما أنجزوه ولكن المهم اي أمال وطموح اكتنزوها في صدورهم ليبقوا ثابتين على تقبل النجاح والتغيير

Read this book for hosting presentation for Management course of my MBA.
It's so sad that the real life of business world is a wasteland of such passion, grit and morality.
Mr. Jack has been a beacon for leadership. How it's like to take people forward to the light. How it's like to really make tough decisions and sit the consequences. Yes he may start by many rules and data to push and stress people but the aim is not just profitability in short term, the purpose of leadership is to respect the human side and with that, to make something really different, really amazing.

Excellent and inspirational

The book indicates true adventure of maverick Jack Welch, from being unknown to one of the most notorious business man in America. It describes doubts initially in his decision and methodologies to cope with. Although all his solutions does not always gain support from public media, aggregated corporate value matters as the advancement in productivity and efficiency strives unprecedented. Additionally, the process of anti-bureaucracy is viable throughout the book as he explicitly opposed such existence within company's culture (Reduction of reporting layers, less table assignments but more field trips for high-ranking officers, etc.). Overall, in my opinion, this is the should-read book of economists, financiers or businessman because we can enter directly to the marvelous brain of Jack and his method to draw out pivotal decisions.

Autobiografia unuia dintre cei mai mari si importanti CEO ai Americii. Jack Welch isi prezinta evolutia in cariera si acei factori care au contribuit la succesele sale.

Este o carte "must read" pentru orice CEO sau top manager de companie.

Eu am ascultat varianta audio de pe audible.com si a fost foarte buna.

On balance, I thought this book was mildly entertaining and reasonably interesting; however, I put it down several times when it became rather repetitive and dull. Hearing about Jack Welch’s leadership philosophy, especially as it relates to human capital and leader development, was the highlight of the book for me. On the flip side, I was horrified to read Welch continually and falsely claim that PCBs being dumped into the Hudson River by GE posed no health risks. Likewise, under Welch, GE was far from a market leader in building a diverse leadership cohort, which is apparent from the book.

It’s been a while since I’ve read a business memoir, a genre I love to read because of its insights. These books are usually written by a CEO or business leader after their career, giving the reader 30,40,50 or more years of life experience. This book was about Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of GE. It’s a fascinating account of a this man and his managerial style and life lessons.

But it was written 19 years ago. And while his insights, expertise, and business acumen are noted and respected, GE has gone through a lot since he left. So my next book will be about GE’s rise and fall, a book published in the last year or so.

I had to give this a three because I skimmed so much at the end. I skimmed so much at the end because the whole book was so many names that I didn't know who they were. It was also like a big history of GE. He does have some good leadership ideas.

I found this a tough read. Wasn’t great at making his professional journey a riveting story. Just seemed like he was showing off about the large deals he was involved in.

"You suck, Jack."

I support capitalism and all of it's weird forms, and I was pointed in the direction of Jack Welch in the 1990s when I was completing my MBA as someone who we should all aspire to be. They were wrong: I'd rather be the person who cleans the urinals out of Grand Central station than to be Jack Welch!

I still think people should read this book but find a used copy or one from the library. For people who love the art of business as much as I do, I draw upon this book the same disdain that humanity has for Mein Kampf. Jack was actually no different than Adolf Hitler in one large way; he targeted a group of people and eliminated them. The crazy German guy targeted those of Jewish Heritage, Jack Welch targeted the American worker. He shutdown factories, played monopoly with those who could have retired from GE's pension program and a lot of other nasty things that are unbecoming of a business leader.

I've owned a few businesses now and have been in corporate executive roles including ones at the Fortune 500 level. Jack Welch couldn't run a lemonade stand. It's this guy, Jack Welch, who started the process that unfolded to the "great migration to offshore" by reducing headcounts for the sake of making a quarterly earnings report look better for an investor class. (In true capitalism, investors are important, but they are only one stakeholder - without employees or smart people, you don't have a business either).

A *wonderful* book on this is The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles .

General Electric is now being broken up, it's appliances licensed to Haier, a Chinese manufacturer, and the airplane engines will be thrown off to probably the highest bidder at the time of this review. GE Capital was how we played hookie: it's not financial wizardry, it's financial smudging. Amazingly the guy came in with an 'above-expections' number every quarter? Not even Michael Jordan played every game perfectly. That should have tipped off Wall Street (but they are sheep).

Thanks for nothing, Jack. Thanks for demolishing the American dream and spitting on it's grave. We all hope you won't be remembered for anything more than the horrifying and self-serving business manager you were.

Great business leader good book

Jack definetly Will be unforgetable in modern business and management. The book is worth Reading to understand part ir his mind and business in a huge Corporation.

GE history is very interesting, and Jack has so many great insights