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Jack
Welch
with Suzy Welch
WIN
NING
To the thousands of men and women
who cared enough about business to raise their hands
The authors’ profits from this book are being donated to charity.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
“Every Day, There Is a New Question”
1
U N D E R N E AT H I T A L L
1. MISSION AND VALUES
So Much Hot Air About Something So Real
13
2. CANDOR
The Biggest Dirty Little Secret in Business
25
3. DIFFERENTIATION
Cruel and Darwinian? Try Fair and Effective
37
4. VOICE AND DIGNITY
Every Brain in the Game
—v—
53
CONTENTS
YO U R C O M PA N Y
5. LEADERSHIP
It’s Not Just About You
61
6. HIRING
What Winners Are Made Of
81
7. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
You’ve Got the Right Players. Now What?
97
8. PARTING WAYS
Letting Go Is Hard to Do
119
9. CHANGE
Mountains Do Move
133
10.CRISIS MANAGEMENT
From Oh-God-No to Yes-We’re-Fine
147
YO U R C O M P E T I T I O N
11. STRATEGY
It’s All in the Sauce
165
12. BUDGETING
Reinventing the Ritual
189
13. ORGANIC GROWTH
So You Want to Start Something New
205
14. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Deal Heat and Other Deadly Sins
217
15. SIX SIGMA
Better Than a Trip to the Dentist
— vi —
245
CONTENTS
YO U R CA R E E R
16. THE RIGHT JOB
Find It and You’ll Never Really Work Again
255
17. GETTING PROMOTED
Sorry, No Shortcuts
277
18. HARD SPOTS
That Damn Boss
299
19. WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Having It All (But Were Afraid to Hear)
313
TYING UP LOOSE ENDS
20. HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
The Questions That Almost Got Away
339
Acknowledgments
360
Index
363
About the Author
Other Books by Jack Welch
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
— vii —
Introduction
“EVERY DAY, THERE IS
A NEW QUESTION”
A
my autobiography—a fun but crazily
intense grind that I wedged into the corners of my real job
at the time—I swore I’d never write another book again.
But I guess I did.
My excuse, if there is one, is that I didn’t actually come up with
the idea...