{"id":41,"date":"2009-12-02T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-10-23T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:07:41","slug":"jack-welch-and-the-ge-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/jack-welch-and-the-ge-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Welch and the GE Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FA5LUO?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=achieinc&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000FA5LUO\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-116\" title=\"Jack Welch and the GE Way\" src=\"https:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jack-welch-and-the-ge-way.jpg\" alt=\"jack-welch-and-the-ge-way\" width=\"105\" height=\"160\" \/>Jack Welch and the GE Way<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=achieinc&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000FA5LUO\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nby Robert Slater<\/p>\n<p>Jack Welch, legendary maverick, discusses the traits that led <em>Business Week<\/em> to anoint him, &#8220;&#8230; the gold standard against which other CEOs are measured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To Jack Welch, change is natural and necessary, and Welch is the master of change. His innate skills and intuition have shaped the course and direction of international business\u2014and his revolutionary strategies have made GE the benchmark for today\u2019s global corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Through Welch\u2019s own words, along with those of dozens of GE insiders who work alongside him, Jack Welch and the GE Way presents a remarkable corporate success saga\u2014and the extraordinary inside story of one of history\u2019s most brilliant business icons.<\/p>\n<p>Welch\u2019s defining credo remains the same: &#8220;By reaching for the seemingly impossible, you often do the impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(This book review was originally published in 1999 as one of the Top 10 Books &#8211; Edition 1.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Welch and the GE Way by Robert Slater Jack Welch, legendary maverick, discusses the traits that led Business Week to anoint him, &#8220;&#8230; the gold standard against which other CEOs are measured.&#8221; To Jack Welch, change is natural and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/jack-welch-and-the-ge-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jack Welch and the GE Way - Book Reviews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This book review is on Jack Welch and the GE Way by Robert Slater.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/jack-welch-and-the-ge-way\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jack Welch and the GE Way - Book Reviews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This book review is on Jack Welch and the GE Way by Robert Slater.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/jack-welch-and-the-ge-way\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Book Reviews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Harry-Kenneth-Jones\/100001507395947\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-02T20:00:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-10-23T19:07:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jack-welch-and-the-ge-way.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Harry K. 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