Global Leadership Summit 2010 Day 2: Jack Welch
From the conference notes:
Said to be the most studied CEO of the 20th Century, Jack Welch began his 41-year career with General Electric Company in 1960, and in 1981 became the company's eighth chairman and CEO.
Fortune named him "manager of the century", and the Financial Times named him one of the three most admired business leaders in the world.
He teaches at MIT's Sloan School of Management and recently launched the Jack Welch Management Institute at Chancellor University, offering advanced management degrees online.
A prolific business writer, he authored the internationally best-selling autobiography, Jack: Straight from the Gut and most recently outlined his management philosophy in the best-seller Winning.
From my personal notes:
- Bill Hybels has been trying to get Jack Welch to speak for 15 years.
- According to Welch, leaders need to be comfortable in their own shoes – someone people can count on.
- People in business take on a persona that is not themselves – they think they have to behave a certain way.
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