The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسنده : Jeffrey A. Krames
Description
In November of 2000, The Wall Street Journal asked me to write an opinion piece on Jack Welch’s choice of a successor. The essay, entitled Welch’s Successor is likely to Succeed, included the following proclamation: “Welch has done more to advance the body of knowledge than any of his contemporaries. He created a new business lexicon.” This statement planted the seed for this book...that the very words, terms, and phrases used most often by Jack Welch, 250 in all, could become the basis for a management book. Of course, I have more than a passing interest in Jack Welch. Having spent a decade studying all things Welch and after editing four books on GE’s CEO and the learning culture he had nurtured, I had begun, imperceptibly at first, to inculcate Welch’s tenets into the everyday fabric of my work life. At McGraw-Hill, the books on Jack Welch that I had acquired and edited had become something of a phenomenon. Each one outsold the one that preceded it, and sales were not confined to North America. Hundreds of thousands of copies were sold and distributed throughout the world, and not only in English, but in close to a dozen languages. Thanks to Welch’s sweeping globalization initiative, GE had a strong presence in all 32 countries in which McGraw-Hill had an office.
