Jack WelchBesprekingen

exito en los negocios, planeacion estratégica, negociación

3.5 out of 5.

Simple, nice, and informative management book. Nice tips on leadership.

I found it interesting that while he was growing up he was already used to leadership, he was quarterback in Jr. High, and several other leadership positions.

Section1:Underneath it All
Chapter 1: Mission Statement and Values
A "good mission statement and a good set of values are so real they smack you in the face with their concreteness." "How do we win in this business?"
"Values are just behaviors" Don't be vague or cryptic. Bank one had ten, here are a few:
- Never let profit center conflicts get in the way of doing what is right for the customer
- Give customers a good, fair deal ...
- Always look for ways to make it easier to do business with us.
- Communicate daily with your customers. ...
- Don't forget to say thank you.
Chapter 2: (the lack of) Candor (is) the biggest dirtly little secret in the business.
- Candor gets more people into the conversation ... you get idea rich.
- Candor generates speed
- Candor cuts costs
We are socialized from childhood to soften bad news or make nice about awkward subjects.
Chapter 3: (He is in favor of) Differentiation
Reward the top 20%, motivate the middle 70%, get rid of the bottom 10% of the people.
Chapter 4 (reminded me of Stephen Covey's latest book) Voice and Dignity
Section 2: Your Company
Chapter 5: Leadership
What Leaders Do
1. Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence
2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.
3. Leaders get into everyone's skin, exuding positive energy and optimism.
4. Leaders establish trust with candor, transparancy, and credit
5. Leaders have the courage to make unpopular decisions and gut calls. (He talks a lot about gut calls later - they are your pattern recognition system)
6. Leaders probe and push with a curiosity that borders on skepticism, making sure their questions are answered with action.
7. Leaders inspire risk taking and learning by setting the example.
8. Leaders celebrate.
Chapter 6: Hiring: What Winners are Made Of
Chapter contents: three acid tests; EEEP framework; 4 special characteristics, FAQ
Three acid tests: Integrity, intelligence, maturity
EEEP: Positive Energy; ability to Energize others; Edge, the courage to make tough decisions; Execute; Passion (an excitement about work)
Hiring for the top: Authenticity; the ability to see around corners; penchant to surround themselves with people better than themselves.
The best leaders in brutally competitive environments have a sixth sense for market changes. They can imagine the unimaginable.
FAQ: ... If I had just one area to probe in an interview, it would be about why the candidate left his previous job, and the one before that. pp Was it the environment? Was it the boss? Was it the team? What exactly made you leave? There is so much information in those answers. Keep digging and dig deep.
Chapter 7: People Management
Chapter 8: Parting Ways; Letting go is hard to do
For itegrity violations; for economic downturns, for nonperformance
Chapter 9: Change

(this is not the end of the book, just all the notes that I made on it.)

Warren Buffet was right. You won't really need any other management books than Winning. It probably covered all the things you need to know about how to win in the corporate world today. Jack Welch cited many examples, many of which you'll be clueless if you're not in America. But all in all, this is a really great book. Whether you're already in the corporate world, or just entering it.

Este livro é de leitura rápida e fácil
Um bom manual de bom senso para quem tem ou poderá ter responsabilidade de conduzir pessoas.

Em especial, os primeiros capítulos apresentam princípios de ética e de comportamento que são úteis como garante de uma vida longa e consistente, com coluna vertebral.

Existe uma versão em Português da Actual Editora
Li há já uns anos e reli agora e continuo a subscrever muito do que é referido.

Jack Welch: Business man's god, tough-talker, golden-parachutist, steely-eyed capitalist with a PhD. Yes the man has a hypertrophied frontal cortex, but he shoots straight from the gut. (Which phrase, oddly enough, makes me think of projectile vomiting.) Somewhere, because of this review's snarky tone, Jedediah Purdy is weeping. Sorry, Jed.

Business advise. When he talked about being open with employees about the company situation, I thought of my experience where 2/3 of our work was moved out of state and management told us there would be no cuts - didn't believe it and turned out not to be true.

I won't be better at managing with this book, but at least I know how a master do it! I'm amazing how management can be explained in a so simple way...
A must read for all that want to win in business world.

In this volume Jack describes his relationship with Strayer and how he created the fastest growing online MBA in the world. It is a practical, easy to read volume that synthesises several of Jack's insights into a book. It can be read as an entree into a graduate program or as a stand alone statement of Jack's insights.

Although I liked this book, I also found it unsettling.
It is indisputable that Mr. Welch achieved phenomenal success as a businessman.
But throughout the book, I kept wondering "Where is his family?" "What about his faith?"
Mr. Welch and those around him apparently lived and breathed business 24/7 for most of their lives and achieved what they believe to be "success." While that life certainly doesn't appeal to me, I guess I'm glad that there are people who are willing to work that hard to create products and services that benefit me and others.
On a side note, I had to snicker when Mr. Welch kept emphatically stating his commitment to "integrity." Anyone familiar with how his second marriage ended knows that he has problems in that area.

A must-read for every professional, entrepreneur

This book had very little insight into the author's thought and decision processes and was more of a complete history of General Electric and it's executive team during the reign of Jack Welch. I would not recommend this book for someone that is not intimately familiar with General Electric and its major players.

Каждый из нас хотел бы иметь возможность получить совет мудрого наставника... Хороший совет, правильный ответ могут изменить очень многое.
В основу книги, которую вы держите в руках, легли ответы на самые лучшие вопросы, пришедшие со всего света в адрес еженедельной колонки Джека и Сюзи Уэлч. Их спрашивают о конкуренции и лидерстве, о построении карьеры и принципах менеджмента, о работе в государственном секторе, в семейных фирмах и огромных корпорациях, о правилах и секретах лучшего бизнеса.
Легендарный Джек Уэлч (экс-CEO General Electric) и Сюзи Уэлч (бывший главный редактор Harvard Business Review) станут вашими советниками и наставниками - и помогут вам сориентироваться в мире современного бизнеса, кем вы бы ни были: предпринимателем, менеджером, топ-менеджером или политиком.

Same straightforward, candid, to the point style that the original Winning book had, but if you previously read the first one, Winning: The Answers feels much less original and useful.

While I do like the format - 74 questions from people all around the world, and answers to each - that could have been easily published as a website and made available for free to the whole world. The answers themselves are pretty concrete and useful: be wary of consultants, seriously consider starting operations in China, seek fault first in yourself and so on. All classic Jack. Good to read through and valuable for future business experience.

Some great stories in here

A lot of great stories and great advice for getting ahead at any level of corporate life.

Acquired via BookCrossing and read on holiday

Interesting business autobiography of the man who was CEO of GE for the 20 years up to 2001. A lot of interesting detail about the battles for succession at the beginning and end of his reign, and some good stuff about some innovative but slightly scary business ideas. Not much personal stuff but that's par for the course with this kind of book.

I'm a big fan of Jack Welch's leadership and writings. I'm not sure most people have the charisma to actually pull off what he did. But, this book is full of good advice that you should reference as you move through your career.

The name says it all - in this book, Welch shares with us his secret to winning. It answers several questions on management and career asked of Welch during his travels around the world. Topics covered include setting corporate vision and mission; strategy; the value of candor; leadership; hiring (and firing); the employee-boss relationship; finding the right career (and keeping it) and more. His style is no-nonsense - he tells you like it is, cutting through hype and getting right to the core of every principle. You will find no magic formula here - in fact, you will realize how hard-earned success is. I liked the practicality and authenticity, as well as the fact that I was listening to lessons that Welch himself had learned - and proven - over four decades of his incredibly successful career.
This is one book that you should read - or listen to, as I had done - over and over again, until its teachings become second nature. If you can get that to happen (and that's a big if!) you won't ever need career advice again.

Jack Welch's biography seems huge when you pick it up but it's a fairly quick and easy read. He tends to go off on tangents that get a bit boring and I wasn't reading it to learn how to manage - I was reading it to hear more about the things that made him a success. This had a few too many boring passages about people that Jack worked with and not enough about Jack, himself.

Not a lot of new material here, some sections were verbatim from Winning. Good little read but skip it if you've already read Winning.

Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, tackles a number of issues that plague every business. He presents candid insights that make sense and are practical. It's hard to disagree with anything he says though I feel he thinks his ideas can be implemented far more quickly and easily than they would in practice. I do disagree with his thoughts on work-life balance and gender gaps in senior positions but you can't agree about everything!

Jack Welch is a very impressive leader who brought about very positive change and results during his time at GE. This book is an excellent collection of Welch's thoughts on business and leadership and whether your business is big or small, you are a CEO or a supervisor; you will benefit from reading this book.

Winning by Jack Welch is core to knowledge workers, managers, and leaders for any area ranging from career management to organizational and individual performance management.

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