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GE's John F. Welch knows a thing or two about change, about management, about getting things done. In 1981, when Welch took over as CEO, GE was only 10th in market value among American public companies. By 1993, GE sales had surged to $60.6 billion and the company was sharing the market lead with the likes of Exxon and AT&T. How did Jack Welch do it? The answer: Welch implemented a tough but flexible agenda that contained some of the very best business ideas corporate America had ever seen. What if you could take some of those ideas and apply them to your own corporation, your own management style? What if you knew the secret to Jack Welch's success? Get Better or Get Beaten! examines 31 of those secrets in a fast-paced, easy-to-digest format that reads like a "manager's little instruction book." Here are the personal beliefs, bywords, principles, and techniques that helped Jack Welch become the most respected CEO in America.

The first concise book of essential Welch-isms, abridged from the bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch follows in Welch's footsteps, boiling the legendary CEO's leadership successes down to 29 strategies that made GE the world's most competitive company­­and Welch the world's most successful and admired CEO. This all-in-one Welch reference updates material from Robert Slater's bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten , and is today's ultimate fast-paced, no-nonsense handbook on the ways of Jack Welch. It taps into the heart of Welch's courage, innovation, and leadership success by examining simple leadership secrets that include:

Behind the scenes with the legendary CEO Jack Welch’s innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch and the GE Way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access to Welch and other prominent GE insiders. What emerged is a brilliant portrait that tells you what makes Jack Welch tick. Learn how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market. Get details on Welch’s far-reaching Six Sigma quality initiative, and discover how its principles and standards can save billions of dollars...how and why he has made GE a truly global company (and why you must think global as well)...and all the other Welch "midas touch" strategies you can put to work in your organization, at every level!

Through in-depth interviews with Soros and his closest advisors as well as an overview of his investment strategies, the major successes and significant influences of this powerful investor in finance and politics are presented in an updated business biography from the author of Jack Welch and the GE Way.

An examination of Microsoft's reinvention under the leadership of CEO Steve Ballmer discusses the ways in which the company survived such challenges as a federal antitrust trial, the dot-com revolution, and a recession, relating how it implemented numerous successful changes to become the world's second most recognizable brand. 50,000 first printing.

Presents a life of the New York real-estate magnate, with an analysis of his gift for self-promotion, his hands-on management style, and his deft use of the media to boost the ratings of his popular TV show, "The Apprentice."

This guide offers practical strategies for writing a doctoral dissertation, specifically aimed at beginner students. It emphasizes the effective use of government data to streamline the research process, potentially reducing the time needed to complete a dissertation by months or even years. The focus is on commonsense approaches that make the daunting task more manageable and efficient.

"If management is an art, then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master painter."- BusinessWeek Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in business history. Welch’s groundbreaking programs—including Six Sigma and Work-Out—along with his numerous strategies on business leadership have helped transform GE into the global benchmark for maximized productivity and labor efficiency. Now, The GE Way Fieldbook explains how you can implement the same programs that helped turn GE into a $100 billion juggernaut. Drawing from his unprecedented access to GE’s top-level corridors of power—including a never-before-published full-length interview with Jack Welch—veteran business author Robert Slater packs innovative strategies, easy-to-use diagnostic exercises, detailed questionnaires, and more into the most hands-on, applications-oriented book ever written on General Electric. Only in The GE Way Fieldbook will you find:

John Chambers wurde 1995 Präsident und CEO von Cisco Systems. Nach einem schwindelerregenden vierjährigen Aufstieg, wurde Cisco zum erfolgreichsten Unternehmen im Silicon Valley. Es wurde darüber hinaus das dritte Unternehmen in der Geschichte, das im Kapitalmarkt den Wert von 500 Millionen Dollar überschritt. Wie Microsoft bei der Software ist Cisco unangefochtener Weltmarktführer für Netzwerkausrüstungen – der „King des Internet“ baut 75% der Produkte für den Netzverkehr. Chambers ist, neben dem legendären Jack Welch, der berühmteste Manager seiner Generation. Slater hatte als erster Autor Zugang zu Chambers und seinen Managern; in dieser Insider-Story schildert er den unglaublichen Erfolg, den tiefen Fall beim Börsencrash und die Strategien, wie Cisco wieder aufsteigt. Anhand von konkreten Beispielen und Übungen können Manager aus Ciscos Fehlern und Strategien lernen. Und es ist eine Art lehrreicher Einblick für Laien in einen Weltkonzern.