Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Books I Liked - Winning

by Jack Welch

Jack Welch came up through the ranks at General Electric and was the company’s CEO for many years. He led the company to year-after-year success around the globe in multiple markets and against brutal competition.

The book covers the key issues on leadership. Very practical, hands-on. It will be useful to you if you want to become a manager or are already a manager.

In my view, this book will become a management book ‘classic’.

One of his advices. BE CANDID. Bring up the facts as they are now. Don’t try to be too subtle. Don’t hold back. It will backfire, e.g. mis-communication, problems may escalate. Of course, there is much, much more.

There is a second book by him titled ‘Winning – The Answers’. In the opening of the book he explained he thought that his first book covered everything about leadership, however, noticed that during his public lectures, he is being asked a lot of additional questions. So, he put the 70+ toughest questions with his answers into that book. Interesting reading as well.

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