Description:
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.
Welch has written a philosophical and pragmatic book that is destined to become the bible of business for generations to come. It clearly lays out the answers to the most difficult and important questions people face both on and off the job. Welch's optimistic, no excuses, get-it-done mind-set is riveting. Packed with personal anecdotes and written in Jack's distinctive no b.s. voice, Winning is a great read and a great business book.
Brief description:
Jack Welch (1935-2020) was the Executive Chairman of the Jack Welch Management Institute, an online MBA school with more than 1,000 students. Prior to this, for 20 years, he was Chairman and CEO of General Electric Company, which was named the world's most valuable corporation and was consistently voted the most admired company in the world by Fortune magazine. Welch was active in private equity and consulting, working with dozens of businesses in a wide variety of industries. Along with speaking to upwards of a million people around the world, CNBC named Jack Welch one of the Top 10 "Rebels, Icons and Leaders" of the past 25 years.
Review Quotes:
"He considers a broad range of topics gleaned from questions posed on the speaking circuit, such as the challenges facing working mothers or how to operate in China's autocratic business culture. He even reflects on his mistakes and comments on current events. All of this is offered in the breezy, blunt style that was his hallmark at GE. The result is a guide that's more candid and accessible than earlier works by or about Welch." - The Arizona Daily Star
"Jack obviously is one of the leading businesspeople in today's society." - Ed Rodriguez, Nationwide Insurance
"He is everybody's model of the quintessential CEO." - Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management
"Revlon honcho Ron Perelman told The Post that his fave read is Winning by Jack Welch." - New York Post
"His blunt, in-your-face writing style makes for brisk reading. It also offers an inside look at Welch's unique and sometimes controversial approach to managing." - The San Juan Star
"Welch is still seen by many as the Mr. Wizard of business strategy and organizational effectiveness." - The Boston Globe Magazine
"Jack brings so much to the table that the table belongs to him. [...] His experience, his pure pitch not only for business but every nuance around it, is unequaled." - Barry Diller
"There is a lifetime of wisdom about business, and life, packed into Jack Welch's Winning. It is unquestionably the best management book to come along in a while-breezy, concrete, spiced with the right amount of humility and refreshingly void of management hokum." - The Washington Post
"Winning is more than just questions and answers; its an organized and readable how to manual." - U.S. News & World Report
"In Winning Welch dispenses the sharp-edged business acumen that earned him a reputation as a daunting corporate leader. He is giving back what he learned, and not just to fellow CEOs. He is able to write a book that might just reach the rest of us." - USA Today
"Welch's book, written with his dealy beloved newish wife, Suzy, is already being called the bible of business for generations to come." - W Magazine
"Welch was full of words of wisdom adn the kind of straight-from-the-gut message that made him a tough and incredibly successful boss at GE." - Salem News
"Welch's management philosphy has been clearly laod out in his new bestselling book, Winning, co-authored by his new, thrid wife, Suzy. [...] Collecting brainiacs works. 'Suzy helped me codify what I knew instinctively, ' Welch says. She drew out his reality-tested concepts about candor, rewarding performance and eliminating mediocrity." - LA Times
"Pick any chapter of Winning, former General Electric Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Jack Welch's latest distillation of philosophical and practical business and life wisdom, and you'll come up with a winner. Already gaining plaudits from many reviewers, Winning covers every essential area of running a winning business in Welch's characteristically lucid, straight-from-the-gut style." - Fort Worth Star Telegram
"All in all, an engaging, free flowing book that every executive should read." - Business Today
"[Welch] keeps the interest level high by interweaving common-sense strategies with dynamic examples and personal reflection." - BusinessWeek
"Jack Welch is back with a far-reaching book on all things business." - Fast Comany
"It's snappily written and no one can argue with the author's footing." - Forbes
"he book delivers a brilliant career's worth of consistently astute (and often iconoclastic) business wisdom and knowledge from the man Fortune magazine called "the manager of the century." Welch knows what he's talking about, and here offers an admirably concise primer on how to do business that's a paragon of tough common sense. [...] It's difficult to think of anyone in business who wouldn't benefit from reading this savvy, engaging, cubicle-to-boardroom guide to success." - Publishers Weekly
"Now is the time." - New York Times
"When you talk with Jack about management, his energy and passion fill the room." - WARREN E. BUFFETT, chairman, Berkshire Hathaway
"Manager of the Century" - Fortune