29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch (MGMT & LEADERSHIP) - Softcover

This is the first concise book of essential Welch-isms, abridged from the bestselling "Get Better or Get Beaten". Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. "29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch" follows in Welch's footsteps, boiling the legendary CEO's leadership successes down to 29 strategies that made GE the world's most competitive company - and Welch the world's most successful and admired CEO. This all-in-one Welch reference updates material from Robert Slater's bestselling "Get Better or Get Beaten", and is today's ultimate fast-paced, no-nonsense handbook on the ways of Jack Welch. It taps into the heart of Welch's courage, innovation, and leadership success by examining simple leadership secrets that include: Managing less is managing better; Make quality the job of every employee; and Have global brains and vision.

Robert Slater has over 25 years of experience writing for Time, Newsweek, and UPI. Slater has written a number of bestselling business books, including Jack Welch and the GE Way; The New York Times business bestseller Ovitz: The Inside Story of Hollywoods Most Controversial Powerbroker; Get Better or Get Beaten: 31 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch, and Soros: The Life, Times, & Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor. His latest book, Saving Big Blue: Leadership Lessons & Turnaround Tactics of IBMs Lou Gerstner, was published in September 1999.