29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch

Book Description

The first concise book of essential Welch-isms, abridged from the bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten

Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch follows in Welch's footsteps, boiling the legendary CEO's leadership successes down to 29 strategies that made GE the world's most competitive company--and Welch the world's most successful and admired CEO.

This all-in-one Welch reference updates material from Robert Slater's bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten, and is today's ultimate fast-paced, no-nonsense handbook on the ways of Jack Welch. It taps into the heart of Welch's courage, innovation, and leadership success by examining simple leadership secrets that include:
1.Managing less is managing better
2.Make quality the job of every employee
3.Have global brains and vision

From Publishers Weekly

Here's a quick read on the leadership principles of the former GE CEO who's often considered one of the 20th century's greatest business leaders. Though his reputation has been somewhat tarnished by his opulent retirement package as well as a messy divorce, his "GE Way" of management is still highly regarded. Slater, a long-time Welch watcher, offers an abridged version of his 2001 Welch tome, Get Better or Get Beaten. This version is perfect for airport reading, though it delivers little of the struggles and setbacks that must have helped form the backbone of Welch's wisdom. Instead we get the platitudes, presented in 29 highly formatted and easy-to-grab chapters. All the instruction is self-evident, told in tiny anecdotes, and followed by a set of "Welch Rules" ("Get the most out of your employees"; "Promote the three 'S's': speed, simplicity, and self-confidence"). There's food for thought here, but not very much of it. This volume's selling point-its brevity-is also its downfall: it feels too much like leadership lite.

Book Dimension
Height (mm) 203 　　　　　　　 Width (mm) 124

Preface
Pt. I The Visionary Leader: Management Tactics for Gaining the Competitive Edge
Leadership Secret 1 Harness the Power of Change
3
Leadership Secret 2 Face Reality!
8
Leadership Secret 3 Managing Less Is Managing Better
12
Leadership Secret 4 Create a Vision and Then Get Out of the Way
15
Leadership Secret 5 Don't Pursue a Central Idea
Instead, Set Only a Few Clear, General Goals as Business Strategies
19
Leadership Secret 6 Nurture Employees Who Share the Company's Values
23
Pt. II Igniting a Revolution: Strategies for Dealing with Change
Leadership Secret 7 Keep Watch for Ways to Create Opportunities and to Become More Competitive
29
Leadership Secret 8 Be Number One or Number Two and Keep Redefining Your Market 33
Leadership Secret 9 Downsize, Before It's Too Late!
37
Leadership Secret 10 Use Acquisitions to Make the Quantum Leap!
41
Leadership Secret 11 Learning Culture I: Use Boundarylessness and Empowerment to Nurture a Learning Culture
46
Leadership Secret 12 Learning Culture II: Inculcate the Best Ideas into the Business, No Matter Where They Come From
50
Leadership Secret 13 The Big Winners in the Twenty-first Century Will Be Global 54
Pt. III Removing the Boss Element: Productivity Secrets for Creating the Boundaryless Organization
Leadership Secret 14 De-Layer: Get Rid of the Fat!
61
Leadership Secret 15 Spark Productivity Through the "S" Secrets (Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence)
65
Leadership Secret 16 Act Like a Small Company
69
Leadership Secret 17 Remove the Boundaries!
73
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