Winning

Name: Winning
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.53 (155 reviews)
Author: Jack Welch
ISBN: 9780060796716

Author: Jack Welch

Narrator: Jack Welch, Paul Hecht

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/10/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Marketing

Synopsis

Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork, and profits.Welch's optimistic, no excuses, get-it-done mind-set is riveting. Packed with personal anecdotes and written in Jack's distinctive no-b.s. voice, Winning is a great read and a great business book. It offers deep insights, original thinking, and nuts-and-bolts advice that are bound to change the way people think about work.Read by Jack Welch

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 Chris on June 20, 2012

1) Keep your HR Director on the Senior Team. 2) The top 20% usually do a great job of managing their work-life balance because they've learned to cultivate relationships, budget time, set boundaries and absorb surprises. Crisis at home seldom spills over to work. By contrast, the other 80% usually ha......more

Goodreads review by Not on October 06, 2010

UNDERNEATH IT ALL Have a positive attitude and spread it around, never let yourself be a victim, and for goodness' sake -- have fun. MISSION AND VALUES Effective mission statements balance the possible and the impossible. Setting the mission is top management's responsibility. A mission cannot be delega......more

Goodreads review by Serise on August 09, 2012

Winning. Winning. Winning. Where do I even start with Winning? This is an audiobook/book that I listen to and read ALL THE TIME. Differentiation, 20-70-10, and who can forget CANDAH? If you get the audiobook, keep in mind that this is narrated by Jack Welch. In full Bostonian accent. However, it add......more

Goodreads review by Bakunin on January 17, 2021

This is basically a book on management by the former CEO of General Electric. It contains the kernel of Welchs views on what leadership is all about. Its about finding the right people for the right job and giving them the right incentive to keep working. Having started my own business last year I n......more

Goodreads review by Pradit on September 10, 2012

Winning is one of the book I like the best, due to its practicality. Although I finished reading this book since 6 years ago, I still remember the chapter on Strategy which is really practical. That chapter contains questions that you can use to run a workshop to develop a strategy for your company.......more