Among various leadership books, I love Jack's book. I found his principles of condor in leadership being key element to success and as a fundamental truth. He lived it, and used it in every aspect of GE leadership. You will find inspiration for a good leadership in here.

One exception to the overall interesting book: Six Sigma madness - this is something which you can ignore. I think this is one of the method he successfully used to weed out dud products and drive results in GE. But, any method thats used as a religion is bound to fail in long term. His Six Sigma success, spurred many such mad initiatives in many other corporate world ...

Quick, easy to read, but important book for management. It is my opinion that everyone at any company in a c-suite down to middle management should be required to read this book at least once every few years. The concepts and initiatives he implemented are so common sense that it's mind boggling there are companies out there that operate in the complete opposite way that Welch did.

I read /Jack Welch & the G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO/, by Robert Slater:

Many of us have read all the Welch books and the General Electric growth story.

We've embraced leadership rather than management, having divisions or subsidiaries that are #1 or #2 in their markets, hiring A players, and regularly culling employees to discard the lowest performers. (You may have embraced Six Sigma, but I haven't. I'm still working on my first Sigma).

Here's a Jack Welch quote that I hadn't seen before: "We run this place like a family grocery store," meaning casual dress at quarterly meetings, and having dinner together and drinks after every meeting.

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Table of Contents:

Part I: Act Like a Leader, Not a Manager.
Embrace Change, Don't Fear It.
Stop Managing, Start Leading.
Cultivate Managers Who Share Your Vision.
Face Reality, Then Act Decisively.
Be Simple, Be Consistent, and Hammer, Your Message Home.

Part II: Building the Market-Leading Company.
Be Number 1 or Number 2, But Don't Narrow Your Market.
Look for the Quantum Leap!
Fix, Close, or Sell: Reviving NBC.
Dont Focus on the Numbers.
Plagiarize--It's Legitimate: Creat a Learning Culture.

Part III: Forging the Boundaryless Organization.
Get Rid of the Managers, Get Rid of the Bureaucracy.
Be Lean and Agile Like a Small Company.
Tear Down the Boundaries.

Part IV: Harnessing Your People for Competitive Advantage.
Three Secrets: Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence.
Use the Brain of Every Worker--Involve Everyone.
Take the "Boss Element" Out of Your Company.
Create an Atmosphere Where Workers Feel Free to Speak Out.
S-t-r-e-t-c-h! Reach for the Stars!

Part V: Push Service and Globalization for Double-Digit Growth.
Grow Your Service Business--It's the Wave of the Future.
Look to Financial Services to Bring in Earnings.
Have Global Brains--and Build Diverse and Global Teams.

Part VI: Drive Quality Throughout the Organization. Live Quality--and Drive Cost and Speed for Competitive Advantage.
Make Quality the Job of Every Employee.
To Achieve Quality: Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control.

Part VII: The Toughest Boss/Most Admired Manager in America.
Jack Welch Deals with Adversity.
Jack Welch Deals with the Next Generation.

Part VIII: Jack Welch's Vision for the Millennium
Bolstering General Electric.
Advice for Other Companies.

Having worked in GE really lot of changes have been brought through on bureaucracy, way of thinking on Six Sigma and product cost workout, focusing on results. But hiring and firing is something which I didnot like in the book in order to have cost cutting.
Overall a very good experience to see a broader perspective.

I love every piece of this book, as a former GE employee I can suscribe that GE's strength now and then is due to the leadership of Jack and his team.

A great primer for corporate leadership. Welch was well ahead of his time and provides great lessons on getting the most out of an organization.

از سازمان بدون مرز و اجرای کیفیت ۶ ستاره لذت بردم.

Received this book at a professional development training and now work at a company very influenced the GE Way so figured why not. Some very interesting stuff, especially the management section, so enjoyed it overall but 20 years later some of it is dated and drags on a bit.

This was a good book about how Jack Welch reinvented some of the processes at GE, including the adoption of Six Sigma from Motorola, and how its timing was managed to coalesce with that of other leadership initiatives.

Some great business and people insights with section divisions that allow for easy skipping of outdated or unapplicable sections

Notes in apple folder

This book clearly tells what Jack Welch thinks about how to deal with a big company and make big money :
- no bureaucracy
- a rapid decision making
- no managers but leaders who will motivate employees and make them fell great in the company by involving them the inovation process
- workouts - people sharing ideas to make products better (high quality)
- use ressources right (human and financial)
- trust people and push people to act
- important word : CHANGE

Jack Welch has seven main messages he often conveys as a public speaker.
1.t"Business is simple."
2.t"Don’t make it overly complicated."
3.t"Face reality."
4.t"Don’t be afraid of change."
5.t"Fight bureaucracy."
6.t"Use the brains of your workers."
7.t"Discover who has the best ideas, and put those ideas into practice."

Love the book with some quotes.