Winning

Name: Winning
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ISBN: 9780060759384

ISBN-10: 0060759380

ISBN-13: 9780060759384

Edition: Large Type

Authors: Jack Welch, Suzy Welch

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Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork, and profits. Since Welch retired in 2001 as chairman and chief executive officer of GE, he has traveled the world, speaking to more than 250,000 people and answering their questions on dozens of wide-ranging topics. Inspired by his audiences and their hunger for straightforward guidance, Welch has written both a philosophical and pragmatic book, which is destined to…

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List price: $36.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

He joined GE in 1960. In 1981, he became the eighth chairman & CEO. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Suzy Welch is the former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, where she worked from 1995 to 2002. She is the author of numerous articles about leadership, managing change, and corporate culture, and the editor of several books on related topics.



Introduction: "Every Day, There Is a New Question"


Underneath it All



Mission and Values: So Much Hot Air About Something So Real



Candor: The Biggest Dirty Little Secret in Business



Differentiation: Cruel and Darwinian? Try Fair and Effective



Voice and Dignity: Every Brain in the Game


Your Company



Leadership: It's Not Just About You



Hiring: What Winners Are Made Of



People Management: You've Got the Right Players. Now What?



Parting Ways: Letting Go Is Hard to Do



Change: Mountains Do Move



Crisis Management: From Oh-God-No to Yes-We're-Fine


Your Competition



Strategy: It's All in the Sauce



Budgeting: Reinventing the Ritual



Organic Growth: So You Want to Start Something New



Mergers and Acquisitions: Deal Heat and Other Deadly Sins



Six Sigma: Better Than a Trip to the Dentist


Your Career



The Right Job: Find It and You'll Never Really Work Again



Getting Promoted: Sorry, No Shortcuts



Hard Spots: That Damn Boss



Work-Life Balance: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Having It All (But Were Afraid to Hear)


Tying up Loose Ends



Here, There, and Everywhere: The Questions That Almost Got Away


Acknowledgments


Index