Welch: An American IconISBN: 978-0-471-25522-2
Paperback
304 pages
September 2002
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Preface 7
Acknowledgements 11
Part I The Jack Welch Legacy 13
Chapter One The House of Magic: How Welch Became an American Icon 27
Chapter Two The Gospel of Good Management 49
Part II General Electric Then and Now 69
Chapter Three The Companies General Electric Dumped 81
Chapter Four The Companies General Electric Acquired 93
Chapter Five Building from Within 113
Chapter Six The Globalization of General electric 129
Chapter Seven Wired Welch 147
Chapter Eight The Dark Side of the Legacy 167
Part II The Future 189
Chapter Nine The Meta-Corporation: General Electric after Welch 201
Chapter Ten Welch after General Electric 223
Chapter Eleven Welch’s Place in History 235
Appendixes 245
Appendix A General Electric and Jack Welch: The Chronology 247
Appendix B GE Values 255
Appendix C The CERES Principles 257
Appendix D General Electric Businesses 261
Appendix E General Electric-Nineteen-Year Performance Figures: 1980-1999 275
Notes 277
Index 297