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Summary: Go with your gut .. read the book! :-)
Review: Can't ignore this book, a must read. I am so happy for having read it finally (got a copy from local library though it can belong in your shelf as well). Once you start you can't stop. Of course it is a lot of details and personally I loved every detail. Enjoy!
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Summary: GREAT! The most inspiring book I've ever read!
Review: This is the most inspiring book I've ever read! I've been feeling down, and after reading this book, I've gained myself and strength; even more, I'm aiming even higher than ever.
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Summary: Read the first half...
Review: I found this book interesting for the first half... after that, it is easy to predict what Mr. Welch is going to say. His strategies and positions were pretty clear, and the ego just gets too heavy after a few hundred pages.
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Summary: Good Overview of Jack
Review: Jack Welch does an adequate job of telling his story. For me, the most interesting part of the book was from his childhood to his early days at GE. It is nice to see a straight-shooter "make it." Later in the book, Mr. Welch gives the uninitiated a nice tour of the GE review process. It is certainly a monument to his ego, but nobody forced me to read this book! Lastly, the method of goal setting he describes in this book is particularly effective.
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: I enjoyed it and obtained the few worthwhile things that I look for in a book like this. Good common sense views and good stories. Interesting man.
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Summary: A razor's edge between self-confidence and hubris
Review: About half way through his book, Jack Welch observes that "there's only a razor's edge between self-confidence and hubris." He implies that he rarely crosses the line, when, in reality, the unbiased observer is likely to conclude after reading "Jack" that he crosses the line frequently. If, however, the reader can tolerate the continuous self-congratulation, there are a great many insights to be gained in this book. (To be fair, diffident people do not accomplish what Welch did.)
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Summary: No matter what, a good management book and GE history but
Review: not a bibliography of Jack himself.Some reviewers argue that the "real" Jack was far from the relatively good or rational or wholly GE minded Jack projected in the book. I dont personally know Jack, of course. However, for an outsider like me who just wanted to learn about how Jack had made GE that very successful, the objective had by and large been achieved. Not only successful stories, but also failures, had been covered with reviews (summarily the same Jack who made both right and wrong decisions) for either sides. I forgot in which issue of Harvard Business Review this year that some scholar attributed the quality of the CEO to be the primary determinant of the fate of a corporation. This book, and the performance of Jack and GE, did give such theory the best support. p.s. What Jack did in the past two decades had reminded me of a Chinese saying, "The success of a general is built upon tens of thousand of dead bodies (skeleton in exact wording). Perhaps that's the cruelty of the business world.
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Summary: A friendly, brilliant view of a corporate giant
Review: "Jack: Straight from the Gut" is a positive, uplifting view from one of America's great corporate leaders, Jack Welch. As CEO of G.E., he made the company massively successful and took companies like RCA, who were bleeding red-ink and turned them around into solid money-making enterprises. I can understand his desire to stay focused on discussing the great success of his leadership and leave the mud-slinging against him to others. We need more corporate leaders like Welch running companies in America and certainly if we had leaders in Washington like him, we would have a soaring economy and no national debt. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in business success and to every single politician in Washington D.C.
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Summary: I got Jack-ed
Review: I read 'Jack' in hardcover a couple of weeks after it came out, and found it easy reading...not a lot of meaty stuff though. Frankly, there are other books that cover the business of the Welch Style of Management better than Jack Welch (see, for instance, anything by Noel Tichy). Welch's track record at GE - validated by the market via the company's rise in market valuation during his tenure- speaks for itself. Two things that did stick in my mind from the book were his brief mention and dismissal of his first wife (he barely notes her existence up until the point where he - essentially - discards her) and his summation of his second wife, Jane: "She has become the perfect partner." As it turns out, I read this in the pre-Suzy Wetlaufer era. And like many readers, I feel like I got Jack-ed, because 'perfect partner' Jane ends up getting the 'first wife treatment' as well. And frankly, that 'perfect partner' line really sticks in my craw now. I wonder: just how much more of 'Jack' is some misdirection woven by its author? To get the real story on Welch and his relationships, you need to turn to sources like the Wall Street Journal. Their excellent reporter James Bander broke the whole Harvard Business Review 'Jack on Jack' interview mess. And the Journal's compelling story about the Welch domestic battle "GE's Jack Welch Meets Match in Divorce Court" (see Nov. 27, 2002 edition) makes for outstanding reading.
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Summary: Informative for business, but not good for entertainment
Review: While I believe that a great deal of information in Welch's book would prove invaluable to many business people trying to work their way up the latter, I did not find this book a good choice for pleasure reading. Welch goes into great detail to outline the inner workings of corporate executives practices and proceedures for a number of things. This book includes invaluable information regarding the process by which employees are often screened in corporations for promotions or lay-offs. However, not being a member of this world I felt a better title for this book would have been, "Jack Welch, excuses for all the mean things I did to people while I was CEO." Enjoy!
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