Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will,9780060937386

Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780060937386
ISBN10: 0060937386
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-02
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

This is a revised edition about Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, and his management principles, with a new chapter on his current activities and copies of annual reports.

Author Biography

Noel M. Tichy is a professor at the University of Michigan Business School, where he directs the Global Leadership Partnership Stratford Sherman is a globally recognized authority on leadership and organizational change; he works as a consultant and is a contributing editor of Fortune magazine

Table of Contents

Editor's Note xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Act One THE AWAKENING 1(156)
Introduction
3(14)
Stratford Sherman
The GE Revolution
17(10)
The Business Engine
27(17)
The Hand He Was Dealt
44(17)
The New Leader
61(19)
The Power of Ideas
80(13)
``Kick-Starting the Revolution''
93(15)
Nothing Sacred
108(10)
Facing Reality
118(14)
The Mirror Test
132(14)
The Turning Point
146(11)
Act Two THE VISION 157(76)
Crotonville
159(21)
The Politics of Speed
180(10)
The New Order
190(13)
Getting Excited
203(16)
Globalization
219(14)
Act Three REVOLUTION AS A WAY OF LIFE 233(117)
Work-Out
235(21)
The Twenty-First-Century Organization
256(15)
Head, Heart, and Guts
271(14)
Jack Welch Speaks His Mind (1992)
285(13)
Jack Welch Speaks His Mind (1999)
298(15)
Afterword
313(37)
Noel Tichy
GE Timeline 350(37)
Jack Welch's Annual Letters to Share Owners, 1981-2000 387(160)
Notes 547(20)
Sources 567(16)
Handbook for Revolutionaries 583(82)
Index 665

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