Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

AuthorThomas Gryta
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Price2995

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"If youâ€™re in any kind of leadership roleâ€”whether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere elseâ€”thereâ€™s a lot you can learn here."â€”Bill Gates, Gates NotesHow could General Electricâ€”perhaps Americaâ€™s most iconic corporationâ€”suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?This is the definitive history of General Electricâ€™s epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall.Since its founding in 1892, GE has been more than just a corporation. For generations, it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers.GE electrified America, powering everything from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the American societal mindset as few companies ever had. And after two decades of leadership under legendary CEO Jack Welch, GE entered the twenty-first century as Americaâ€™s most valuable corporation. Yet, fewer than two decades later, the GE of old was gone.â€‹Lights Out examines how Welchâ€™s handpicked successor, Jeff Immelt, tried to fix flaws in Welchâ€™s profit machine, while stumbling headlong into mistakes of his own. In the end, GEâ€™s traditional win-at-all-costs driven culture seemed to lose its direction, which ultimately caused the companyâ€™s decline on both a personal and organizational scale. Lights Out details how one of Americaâ€™s all-time great companies has been reduced to a cautionary tale for our times.

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company
Publication Date 04/05/2021
Number of Pages 384
Binding Paper Back
ISBN 9780358567059
Category Non Fiction , Business and Management , Management Skills , Banking , Human Resource , Media Studies , Management and Leadership

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