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LIGHTS OUT - THOMAS GRYTA TED MANN KARTONIERT (TB)

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER  "If you’re in any kind of leadership role—whether at a
company  a non-profit  or somewhere else—there’s a lot you can learn here."—Bill Gates  Gates
Notes    How could General Electric—perhaps America’s most iconic corporation—suffer such a
swift and sudden fall from grace?    This is the definitive history of General Electric’s epic
decline  as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall.   Since its
founding in 1892  GE has been more than just a corporation. For generations  it was job
security  a solidly safe investment  and an elite business education for top managers.   GE
electrified America  powering everything from lightbulbs to turbines  and became fully
integrated into the American societal mindset as few companies ever had. And after two decades
of leadership under legendary CEO Jack Welch  GE entered the twenty-first century as America’s
most valuable corporation. Yet  fewer than two decades later  the GE of old was gone.   ​
Lights Out examines how Welch’s handpicked successor  Jeff Immelt  tried to fix flaws in
Welch’s profit machine  while stumbling headlong into mistakes of his own. In the end  GE’s
traditional win-at-all-costs driven culture seemed to lose its direction  which ultimately
caused the company’s decline on both a personal and organizational scale. Lights Out details
how one of America’s all-time great companies has been reduced to a cautionary tale for our
times.   

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