29 Leadership Secrets
from Jack Welch
Ringkasan :Jack Welch, the long-time Chairman and CEO of General Electric,
has been hailed as the greatest business leader of our era
and deservedly so. It was Welch who headed GE from April 1981
to September 2001 and who pioneered some of the most important
business strategies of the past two decades. We now take
these strategies for granted as part of the way American business
is done: restructuring, the emphasis on being number one or
number two, making quality a top priority (through his Six
Sigma initiative), and so on. Moreover, Welch, unlike most other
business leaders, created a tightly woven, carefully scripted business
philosophy that provided brief, crisp guidelines for every
aspect of business.
Welch’s main leadership secrets, spelled out in this book, continue
to resonate throughout the business world. Few other business
leaders have articulated how to achieve maximum performance
with such clarity and forthrightness.
Before Welch took over at GE, the business world had revered
large bureaucracies as critical for close monitoring of personnel;
it had placed great faith in a command-and-control management
system, encouraging senior management to overmanage; it had
allowed the employee to attain a protected status by being assured
of a job for life. Jack Welch punctured holes in each of
these notions. His legacy is that he has forever altered these
myths and has inspired managers of corporations around the
world to behave far differently: Bureaucracies are much smaller,
with fewer management layers; managers manage much less, delegating
far greater authority to empowered employees; the right
to a job for life is no longer guaranteed as management runs
much tighter, more productive ships.
Welch’s performance at General Electric lent mighty credence
to his ideas: When he assumed the post of Chairman and CEO
of GE, the company had annual sales of $25 billion and earnings
of $1.5 billion, with a $12 billion market value, tenth best among
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American public companies. In 2000, the year before Welch retired,
GE had $129.9 billion in revenues; and $12.7 billion in
earnings. In 2001, GE’s revenues stood at $125.9 billion; and
earnings rose to $14.1 billion.
From 1993 until the summer of 1998, GE was America’s market
cap leader. Under Welch, the company reached a high of
$598 billion in market cap (but settled in at about $400 billion
during Welch’s final years as CEO). Fortune magazine selected
GE as ‘‘America’s Greatest Wealth Creator’’ from 1998 to 2000.
Anyone in business, from the most powerful corporate managers
to the hourly factory worker, has much to learn from Jack
Welch and his ideas. Studying his leadership secrets tells us what
American business was once like, and outlines how the tactics
he pioneered have changed business for the better in so many
ways.
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