29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch

Unique among the numerous books that focus on Jack Welch's unprecedented life, 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch instead looks at Welch's business genius. Condensed and updated from Robert Slater's bestelling Get Better or Get Beaten, this no-nonsense book reveals the principal techniques and strategies Welch relied on to transform GE into the world's most competitive enterprise. Whether you are a manager stretching to reach the top or an executive intent on staying there, learn here how you can incorporate each of Welch's guiding principles into your own career, principles that include: Finding the best ideas, wherever they are. Instilling a quality-first mindset in every employee. Creating a boundaryless culture that increases productivity at every level. Jack Welch possesses the best business mind of our time, perhaps of all time. Discover the hands-on methods behind his success in 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch and begin today to apply them to your own day-to-day decision making. Book jacket.

Robert Slater is the author of a number of bestselling business books, including four books on Jack Welch. A veteran journalist with more than 25 years of experience with Time, Newsweek, and UPI, Slater is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on General Electric and Jack Welch.

Preface	p. vii
The Visionary Leader: Management Tactics for Gaining the Competitive Edge
Harness the Power of Change	p. 3
Face Reality!	p. 8
Managing Less Is Managing Better	p. 12
Create a Vision and Then Get Out of the Way	p. 15
Don't Pursue a Central Idea; Instead, Set Only a Few Clear, General Goals as Business Strategies	p. 19
Nurture Employees Who Share the Company's Values	p. 23
Igniting a Revolution: Strategies for Dealing with Change
Keep Watch for Ways to Create Opportunities and to Become More Competitive	p. 29
Be Number One or Number Two and Keep Redefining Your Market	p. 33
Downsize, Before It's Too Late!	p. 37
Use Acquisitions to Make the Quantum Leap!	p. 41
Learning Culture I: Use Boundarylessness and Empowerment to Nurture a Learning Culture	p. 46
Learning Culture II: Inculcate the Best Ideas into the Business, No Matter Where They Come From	p. 50
The Big Winners in the Twenty-first Century Will Be Global	p. 54
Removing the Boss Element: Productivity Secrets for Creating the Boundaryless Organization
De-Layer: Get Rid of the Fat!	p. 61
Spark Productivity Through the "S" Secrets (Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence)	p. 65
Act Like a Small Company	p. 69
Remove the Boundaries!	p. 73
Unleash the Energy of Your Workers	p. 77
Listen to the People Who Actually Do the Work	p. 81
Go Before Your Workers and Answer All Their Questions	p. 86
Next Generation Leadership: Initiatives for Driving and Sustaining Double-Digit Growth
Stretch: Exceed Your Goals as Often as You Can	p. 93
Make Quality a Top Priority	p. 97
Make Quality the Job of Every Employee	p. 101
Make Sure Everyone Understands How Six Sigma Works	p. 105
Make Sure the Customer Feels Quality	p. 110
Grow Your Service Business: It's the Wave of the Future	p. 115
Take Advantage of E-Business Opportunities	p. 119
Make Existing Businesses Internet-Ready--Don't Assume That New Business Models Are the Answer	p. 123
Use E-Business to Put the Final Nail in Bureaucracy	p. 127
Afterword	p. 133
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