Quotes About Jack Welch

read Jack Welch's books about General Electric and his management approach and never encounter the phrase "GE jerks." Yet that is a term I first heard from a now-retired GE senior executive who reported directly to Mr. Welch.

Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You, by Rosanne Badowski. She is Jack Welch's longstanding executive assistant and has written a book that we highly recommend all executive assistants read.

GE's system of differentiation, which separates employees into three performance categories and manages them up or out accordingly.

In an illuminating comment on the financialisation of business, Jack Welch — now long retired from General Electric — would in 2009 proclaim shareholder value 'the dumbest idea in the world.