Get Better or Get Beaten!: 31 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch - Hardcover

Slater, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786302356 ISBN 13: 9780786302352

Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub, 1994

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover

Over a dozen new chapters­­on everything from Workout to Six Sigma to

e-Business

How to Think, Talk, and Lead Like Jack Welch, History's Most Celebrated­­and Successful­­CEO

"If leadership is an art, then surely Welch has proved himself a master painter."
­­BusinessWeek

"Wall Street and Main Street have been spoiled by Mr. Welch and his extraordinary performance."
­­The Wall Street Journal

"Perhaps the most admired CEO of his generation."
­­Fortune

Since it first hit business bestseller lists, Get Better or Get Beaten has shown over 100,000 executives how to understand the secrets­­and emulate the successes­­of GE's legendary CEO Jack Welch. Now completely revised and updated with rules for managers in today's transformed economy, this fast-paced classic provides proven leadership imperatives for every situation, regardless of industry.

From Secret #1 ("Harness the power of change") to Secret #29 ("Use e-Business to put the final nail in bureaucracy"), Get Better or Get Beaten is today's most straightforward, easy-to-follow blueprint for real-world success. Read it, learn from it, and use it to follow in the footsteps of corporate history's most honored CEO­­GE's Jack Welch.

"Slater distills Welch's business philosophy­­an amalgam of Zen-like axioms, bromides, and tough-minded pragmatism­­in a way that will reward managers at all levels who seek to create a learning environment and transform learning into action."
­­Publisher's Weekly, on the national bestseller Jack Welch and the GE Way

Jack Welch built GE into the most successful American corporation of the late 20th century. He accomplished this by focusing on quality, insisting on innovation, and forging a series of innovative business strategies that transformed GE from an overly bureaucratic, slow moving, and self-satisfied dinosaur into a lean, agile competitor.

Like Jack Welch himself, Get Better or Get Beaten, 2nd Edition, continues to carve its own path and call its own shots. Updated to reflect the realities of today's 24/7/365 global e-conomy, this classic management manifesto gets in your face and tells you what you need to know. For virtually every business situation, it answers one overriding question­­"What would Welch do?"­­with clarity, purpose, and a singular focus on achieving bottom-line results.

Small enough to fit in your coat pocket, yet bursting with Welch's leadership secrets on every page, it paints a compelling picture of how to teach employees­­and yourself­­to accept nothing but the best. Look inside to discover:

• Strategies Welch used to pull off the largest acquisition in GE's history­­the stunning $48-billion purchase of Honeywell
• How Welch is using e-communication to energize and revitalize every corner of GE­­from the mailroom to the boardroom
• The inside story on Six Sigma­­Welch's sweeping quality initiative that is the foundation of GE's success

Jack Welch is a no-nonsense leader and has acknowledged that, when preparing for a speech, he has frequently peeked into Get Better or Get Beaten. Hard-hitting and honest, it is today's most entertaining and enlightening book on climbing to the top of today's corporate ladder­­and doing what it takes to stay there.

About the Author

Robert Slater had over 25 years of experience with Time, Newsweek, and UPI. One of today's top business biographers, Slater has written a number of bestselling books, including Jack Welch and the GE Way and The GE Way Fieldbook.

Edition details

• Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0786302356
• ISBN 13: 9780786302352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160