Winning

Read on 05/23/2005
Jack Welch and Suzi Welch

Jack Welch who has forty years of career at GE and retired as CEO of GE in 2001, has written this book which is both philosophical and practical.The book is divided into three sections. The first section look inside the company - mission and values, the biggest dirty little secrets in Business , leadership, hiring, people management, when to let people go and when to retain them, people acting as change agents in the company and how they can move mountains and crisis management. The second section looks at the competition like strategy, budgeting, Six Sigma when to use it and when not to use it and to what extent to use those statistics .Mergers and Acquisitions deals with some of the pitfalls of mergers and how they are challenging in today's business world. The third section of the book deals with managing your career- right from finding the right job which has some good strategies, getting promoted, hard spots like handling and working under damn boss and balancing the work and life in today's highly competitive business environment. The book is good addition to management bookshelf.