Leadership Style of Jack Welch
"If leadership is an art, then surely Welch has proved himself a master painter."
- Business Week, May 28, 1998.
"The two greatest corporate leaders of this century are Alfred Sloan of General Motors and jack Welch of GE. And Welch would be the greater of the two because he set a new, contemporary paradigm for the corporation that is the model of the 21st Century."
- Noel Tichy, Professor of Management, University of Michigan, and a longtime GE observer.
Introduction
|On September 6, 2001, John Francis Welch Jr. (Jack Welch), Chairman and |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |
|Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Co. (GE),1 retired after | |
|spending 41 years with GE. During the period, he made GE the most | |
|valuable company in the world. Analysts felt that, with his innovative, | |
|breakthrough leadership style as CEO, Jack Welch transformed GE into a | |
|highly productive and efficient company. During Jack Welch 's two decades| |
|as CEO, GE had grown from a US$13 billion manufacturer of light bulbs | |
|and appliances in 1981, into a US$480 billion industrial conglomerate by| |
|2000. Analysts felt that Jack Welch had become a 'deal-making ' machine, | |
|supervising 993 acquisitions worth US$13 billion and selling 408 | |
|businesses for a total of about US$10.6 billion. |
- Business Week, May 28, 1998.
"The two greatest corporate leaders of this century are Alfred Sloan of General Motors and jack Welch of GE. And Welch would be the greater of the two because he set a new, contemporary paradigm for the corporation that is the model of the 21st Century."
- Noel Tichy, Professor of Management, University of Michigan, and a longtime GE observer.
Introduction
|On September 6, 2001, John Francis Welch Jr. (Jack Welch), Chairman and |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |
|Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Co. (GE),1 retired after | |
|spending 41 years with GE. During the period, he made GE the most | |
|valuable company in the world. Analysts felt that, with his innovative, | |
|breakthrough leadership style as CEO, Jack Welch transformed GE into a | |
|highly productive and efficient company. During Jack Welch 's two decades| |
|as CEO, GE had grown from a US$13 billion manufacturer of light bulbs | |
|and appliances in 1981, into a US$480 billion industrial conglomerate by| |
|2000. Analysts felt that Jack Welch had become a 'deal-making ' machine, | |
|supervising 993 acquisitions worth US$13 billion and selling 408 | |
|businesses for a total of about US$10.6 billion. |