The RealLife MBA, Jack Welch
The RealLife MBA, Jack Welch
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The Real-Life MBA
Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career

Author: Jack Welch, Suzy Welch

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/14/2015

Synopsis

You can talk about theories, concepts, and ideologies all you want, but when it gets right down to it, winning in business is all about mastering the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break, real-life dilemmas that define the new economy, the old economy, and everything in between. My boss is driving me nuts. I’m stuck in career purgatory. My team has lost its mojo. IT is holding us hostage. Our strategy is outdated the day we make it. We don’t know what our Chinese partners are talking about. We’re just not growing. This is the real stuff of work today. In the decade since their blockbuster international best-seller Winning was published, Jack and Suzy Welch have dug deeper into business than ever in their careers, traveling the world consulting to businesses of every size and in every industry, working closely with entrepreneurs from Mumbai to Silicon Valley, starting their own company, and owning and managing more than 40 companies through private equity. Coupled with Jack’s 20 years of iconic leadership at GE and Suzy’s tenure as editor of the Harvard Business Review, their new database of knowledge will infuse The Real-Life MBA with fresh, relevant stories and equally powerful solutions.

About Jack Welch

Jack Welch (1935–2020) was the Executive Chairman of the Jack Welch Management Institute, an online MBA school with more than 1,000 students. Prior to this, for 20 years, he was Chairman and CEO of General Electric Company, which was named the world's most valuable corporation and was consistently voted the most admired company in the world by Fortune magazine. Welch was active in private equity and consulting, working with dozens of businesses in a wide variety of industries. Along with speaking to upwards of a million people around the world, CNBC named Jack Welch one of the Top 10 ""Rebels, Icons and Leaders"" of the past 25 years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on May 22, 2020

There's a place I don't expect to feed when I pick up a book hoping to pass on some insights to the business students I work with. It's the bigger-ideas place. It's the enthusiasm-for-more-than-functional-words place. The Welches, delightfully, feed the functional and the almost anti-functional sides......more

Goodreads review by Marks54 on October 03, 2021

I am generally disappointed when I read trade/mass market business books. The experience is so common that I cannot attribute it to poor reading choices or inept/lazy authors, although there are some of those around. I think the issue goes deeper than that. To start with, the unspoken goal of good bu......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on September 06, 2015

When wisdom speaks, do you listen? Jack Welch is one of the most respected CEOs of the 20th century. Any business leader who wants to succeed will consider what he has to say. In one sense, this book helps promote the Jack Welch Management Institute MBA program. However, don’t think that it focuses o......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on August 05, 2015

I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads. FTC guidelines: check! Jack & Suzy Welch have years of corporate experience under their belts. The Real-Life MBA is filled with some of their best practices culled from this background. Some of it I found helpful, other suggestions I......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on July 16, 2019

The Real-Life MBA is an enjoyable and easy read, with numerous points of actionable advice from start to finish. I've been able to take numerous tips from this book and implement them in my own career. The book also helped reinforce ideas I had on business which in turn has given me confidence in im......more

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