The GE jock; Jack Welch.(Jack Welch's autobiography suggests he never left the locker room)
Economist (US), The, October, 2001
Head coach
A remarkably candid autobiography by a great business mogul
IT IS difficult to read far into this book without wondering, "Why was it written?" Why did Jack Welch, American icon, choose to undermine the myth? "Salem was a scrappy and competitive place," we read early on about the Massachusetts town where he grew up. "I was competitive, and my friends were, too. All of us were jocks, living to play one sport or another." Once a jock, always a jock. The man who captained General Electric at a time when it won a much-coveted prize for gathering the most shareholder value in a five-year period, turns out to have been an unblinkingly confident terrier who led all his teams thereafter with the same gutsy instinct he displayed on the sports...
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