Knowledge@SMU

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Knowledge@SMU

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

4-2010

Abstract

It has been almost a decade since Jack Welch retired as GE’s chairman and CEO, but the legacy and methods of one of the biggest names in corporate America is still widely talked about, even revered. During his two-decade tenure, the conglomerate grew its profits by nearly 30 times – an astounding feat for an old, sizeable multinational corporation. However, times have changed and so have employee attitudes. Will Welch's confrontational, no-nonsense, outcome-oriented methods, that have become so synonymous with GE, go down well its new generations of workers?

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Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Article ID

1280

Subject(s)

Leadership and Change

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