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Jacked up: the inside story of how Jack Welch talked GE into becoming the world's greatest company
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McGraw-Hill
Publication Date
c2008
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Torched by an a-hole
Retiring but not shy
Reflections of a pimp
Bore wars : Chet Lang and the big bang
Death of a pitchman
I can't deal with this anymore
Mike's big day
Crotonville high
Prior planning prevents piss-poor performance
Fred's bad day
Triumphs, train wrecks, coronations, and Jack's biggest miss
You're going nowhere at GE unless...
How to succeed in business by really trying
Love, or hate, at first sight
The view from the bowling alley
The bogus Boca presentation
Died and went to headquarters
Selling hats to each other
The Russians are coming
Hectoring the hobbit
Movin' on, sideways
Death to strategic planning
Blubbering on the stand
From grunt to flunky
The marionette meister
Jacking up the commo
Don't dive, swim!
Restuffing guts
Gentle meddling
Called on the carpet
More change via negative reviews
Takes one to know one
Dead man talking
"Stop construction today"
Every biopsy doesn't have to come back positive
I'm okay ; you're an a-hole
Bulletproofing the love-in
Death by presentation at NBC
Peeing on the Kidder body
A shout from the bathroom
The Wright stuff (righted)
Diversity is our...er...strength
Fly ball at the Pierre
Black clouds lift the stock
The chairman and the strawman
Don't screw this up
Don't care about it? Don't do it!
The 110 percent solution and Jack's perks
Wanna drink lunch with us?
The firing squad
Why Gary Wendt
Lack of care packages
Seinfeld in Fairfield : the yogurt incident
Order and logic out of chaos
Doin' time
Better than the best
Herb smokes Jack : Warren lurks in his nightmare
The Welch work ethic
The fist through the drapes
Crotonville turkey shoot
A pad in front of you
If your wife thinks it's boring, it's boring
Danger : flying carrot fragments
Ringo's rule
The perfect annual report
"Not a pennyworth of difference"
Bore wars continue...
Lloyd's law : a learning company
The bore test. Are you relevant?
Larry leaves. Lane grieves. (on the way to the bank)
The inevitable (but very short) golf section
Tough Jack to follow
Know your potential enemy
Out of the gate and serious
Tell me a story
The dogs are your friends
What you face if you're black, Asian, or a Woman
Ten minutes! No more!
PowerPoint is the enemy. Never surrender
On being a leader rather than a projector operator
Do it all in five charts
At the end of the day
Love story.
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9780071544108
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