Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch

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Jack: Straight from the Gut

by Jack Welch

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Very easy to understand. Great for character building. Very insightful. Good from a Management as a discipline standpoint. I recommend. (

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markdeo | Apr 18, 2009 |

Welch, Jack and Byrne, John A.. Jack: Straight from the Gut. Warner Books, New York, 2001. Read this on David Golds' recommendation. It was supposed to inspire me: Jack was an ordinary guy, rose through the ranks at GE, ran the place for 20 years, and by putting common-sense reforms in place made it the most admired company in America. What did I learn? I'm afraid not that much. On the one hand, I'm glad to see that my aversion to bureaucracy is shared by one of the most admired business leaders in America. I'm glad to see how he was able to take something like "boundaryless" and bake it in to the corporate culture. (That's something we don't have at Microsoft.) One phrase will stick with me from the book, and this is why David recommended it, I think: I need to "get out of the pile." I've been too lax with my career development. If I want to run Microsoft in 15 years, I need to always strive to get out of the pile.

BrianDewey | Aug 1, 2007 |

It's an easy read but I found it hard to stomach the whole self loving, vicious business culture he depicts. did he never make a mistake? (

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cornisle | Jul 2, 2007 |

I really did not enjoy this book as well as I thought I would have. He seems stuck on himself.

lldine | May 8, 2007 |

Ok, so he was the great paradigm-shifting CEO of GE, but as an autobiography, I found this book lacked authenticity. I did not finish it! (

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Jaylabelle | Apr 23, 2007 |

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It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. Under his leadership, General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business. In Jack: Straight from the Gut, Welch, with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne, recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century. Beginning with Welch's childhood in Salem, Massachusetts, the book quickly progresses from his first job in GE's plastics division to his ambitious rise up the GE corporate ladder, which culminated in 1981. What comes across most in this autobiography is Welch's passion for business as well as his remarkable directness and intolerance of what he calls "superficial congeniality"--a dislike that would help earn him the nickname "Neutron Jack." In spite of its 496 pages, Jack: Straight from the Gut is a quick read that any student or manager would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards

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