Editorial Review:
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'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. It offers deep insights, original thinking, and nuts-and-bolts advice that are bound to change the way people think about work. Read by Jack Welch
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Winning-Jack Welch  2008-10-23
The overall content was good, but i wish they would have used an actor's voice because the recorded voice was distructing because he sounded like he had a cold.
Empowerment for others 2008-10-19
Jack Welch has done a great job in sharing his philosophies on how to be a business success. In particular, I found his insights on empowering the people around you to make yourself a better leader very inspiring. If it does nothing else, it outlines a very subtle message to keep your own ego in check if you want to reach the pinnacle of achievement that so many of us want. Also, from a strictly business aspect, his thoughts on acting with integrity are pretty much on point.
The only thing I felt took away from this book was that if Jack lived his personal life completely the same way he does his business life, I can't help to think he would have been even more successful. Overall, I enjoyed perusing through the pages of Winning. Jim Fargiano, author of The Spoken Words of Spirit: Lessons From The Other Side
Management teextbook  2008-10-06
Written with candor and clarity, Winning is a must read for senior executives and middle managers. You learn how to create a winning culture, and an environment where those who do their best and are equipped for the job are rewarded. I especialy appreciated Jack's 20/70/10 rule, and his views on how to expand an organization while managing risk. Buy this book and read each and every page.
"Calling it like it is" 2008-07-12
Do you have the courage to "call it like it is"? So many businesses, and managers struggle with this concept. Often, it seems so much easier to simply gloss over the real issue, managers want to be "liked", have friends and staff that look up to them as leaders they like and that means often not saying what needs to be said, or doing what is difficult. Jack Welch gives it to the reader "like it is", and implores managers to use candor to get the change required to move businesses forward.
Jack doesn't just push managers to use fear to motivate though, in fact, he rightfully points out the concept of 20/70/10. Every business will have 20% at the top, 70% in the middle and 10% at the bottom. GREAT leaders work with the middle 70%, get under their skin and motivate them to love the challenge of coming to work everyday, exhausting their positive output to push staff to be their BEST everyday, and to love doing it. But the bottom 10%, those who would rather text-message and surf the internet than actually work? What to do with them? If you have a candid organization, where dealing with true issues dominates the conversations, these bottom feeders know JUST WHERE THEY STAND, and they either get their act together, or the manager does them a favor by letting them go. It's not mean it's not nice, it's about winning, If you want to out-perform, you need the best players. Such a simple, hardened truth so many manager lose track of - yet Jack reminds us it is the core of performance.
I highly recommend this book for all managers and leaders.
Good thoughts from a great leader  2008-06-16
This item arrived quickly and in good condition. Jack Welch is a great leader, but some of his ability and ideas about leading cannot be conveyed on the written page.
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