Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (把握命运：GE的成功奥妙)

"This is a fascinating story with widely applicable lessons."
--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor, Harvard Business School
AcknowLedged as the outstanding business Leader of the late twentieth century,
Jack Welch made General Electric one of the world's most competitive companies.
This dynamic CEO defined the standard for organizational change, creating more than $400 billion in shareholder value by transforming a bureaucratic behemoth into a nimble, scrappy winner in the global marketplace.
Here, Tichy and Sherman extract the enduring leadership lessons from the revolution Welch wrought at GE. Of these, the most essential is the limitless
power of learning. Leadership has its mysteries, but it is a skill that anyone can acquire and enhance. Above all, great Leaders select great people and lure them into an endless process of learning and adaptation.

Book Description
Acknowledged as the outstanding business leader of the late twentieth century, Jack Welch made General Electric one of the world's most competitive companies. This dynamic CEO defined the standard for organizational change, creating more than $400 billion in shareholder value by transforming a bureaucratic behemoth into a nimble, scrappy winner in the global marketplace.

Here, Tichy and Sherman extract the enduring leadership lessons from the revolution Welch wrought at GE. Of these, the most essential is the limitless power of learning. Leadership has its mysteries, but it is a skill that anyone can acquire and enhance. Above all, great leaders select great people and lure them into an endless process of learning and adaptation.

Jack Welch's Six Rules

1.Control your destiny or someone else will.
2.Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were.
3.Be candid with everyone.
4.Don't manage, lead.
5.Change before you have to.
6.If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)20.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.5

Noel M. Tichy is a professor at the University of Michigan Business School, director of the school's Global Leadership Partnership, and former head of GE's Crotonville Leadership Development Center. He is the author of the best seller Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (with Stratford Sherman).

Authors' Note
Editor's Note
Acknowledgments
Act One
　THE AWAKENING　Introduction by Stratford Sherman (2001)
　1. The GE Revolution
　2. The Business Engine
3.The Hand He Was Dealt
4. The New Leader
5.The Power of Ideas
6."Kick-Starting the Revolution"
7. Nothing Sacred
8. Facing Reality
9. The MirrorTest
10.TheTurning Point
Act Two THE VISION
11. Crotonville
12. The Politics of Speed
12. The Politics of Speed
13. The New Order
14. Getting Excited
15. Globalization
Act Three REVOLUTION AS A WAY OF LIFE
16. Work-Out
17. The Twenty-First-Century Organization
18. Head. Heart. and Guts
19. JackWelch Speaks His Mind (1992)
20. Jack Welch Speaks His Mind (1999)
21. Afterword by Noel Tichy (2001)
22. Afterword to the 2005 Edition
GE TIMELINE
GE Timeline
Jack Welch's Annual Letters to Share Owners.
1981-2000
Notes
Sources
HANDBOOK FOR REVOLUTIONARIES
Index