The GE Way Fieldbook: Jack
Welchs Plan For Corporate Revolution
INTRODUCTION
The perfect companion to the national bestseller Jack Welch and the GE Way.
The GE Way Fieldbook is the first hands-on, interactive book designed to show managers how
to implement Jack Welch's leadership secrets in their own firms. Under Welch's leadership,
GE's visionary programs, including Work-Out and Six Sigma, have become the benchmarks by
which all other business initiatives are measured.
Diagnostic exercises, practice session templates, and other never-before-published GE
materials will show everyone from floor supervisors to CEOs how to put Welch's ideas and
strategies into action. The GE Way Fieldbook is chock full of Welch's wisdom as well as
his nuts-and-bolts recipes for action, including components of GE's Six Sigma program, and
complete primer on Work-Out GE's proven program for enhancing productivity.
DESCRIPTION
"If management is an art, then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master
painter." - BusinessWeek
Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in
business history. Welch?s groundbreaking programs?including Six Sigma and Work-Out?along
with his numerous strategies on business leadership have helped transform GE into the
global benchmark for maximized productivity and labor efficiency.
Now, The GE Way Fieldbook explains how you can implement the same programs that helped
turn GE into a $100 billion juggernaut. Drawing from his unprecedented access to GE?s
top-level corridors of power?including a never-before-published full-length interview with
Jack Welch?veteran business author Robert Slater packs innovative strategies, easy-to-use
diagnostic exercises, detailed questionnaires, and more into the most hands-on,
applications-oriented book ever written on General Electric. Only in The GE Way Fieldbook
will you find:
"The Boca Raton Speeches"?Never-before-seen excerpts taken from Jack Welch?s
internal speeches to GE employees
More than 100 exercises, overheads, and exhibits from the files of Jack Welch and GE
The most complete treatment of GE?s Six Sigma program ever published
Step-by-step action plans that are blueprints for implementing Six Sigma and Work-Out?and
creating the boundaryless organization
The fieldbook has become one of today?s most popular, effective teaching tools?but never
before has one focused on the inner workings and strategies of a specific company. Let The
GE Way Fieldbook give you an inside look at the stunningly successful Jack Welch era at
GE, provide the techniques and tools you need to focus every worker in your organization
on progress and growth, and outline a strategic roadmap for implementing GE?s business
practices?and removing the boundaries to success?within your own organization.
CONTENTS
Book I: The GE Way: A Fieldbook for Corporate Revolution.
I: The Leadership Module.
Leadership I: Management Is Not Complicated.
Leadership II: Ask the Right Questions.
Leadership III: People Are Your Greatest Asset.
Leadership IV: Reward Your Best People.
II: The Empowerment Module.
Work-Out I: Using the Brains of All Your Workers.
Work-Out II: A Work-Out Instruction Guide.
III: The Organization Module.
The Boundaryless Enterprise.
Learning Culture I: Creating the Learning Culture.
Learning Culture II: Stealing Shamelessly.
Learning Culture III: Learning from Your Employees.
IV: The Customer Module.
Six Sigma I: Setting the Stage.
Six Sigma II: Designing a Six Sigma Program.
Six Sigma III: Putting It Into Practice.
Six Sigma IV: How Sigma Has Worked at GE.
The GE Tool-Kit.
Book II: The GE Way: The CEO in the Field.
The Jack Welch Interview.
The Jack Welch Speeches.
The Jack Welch Letter to Share Owners, Employees and Customers.
From the Files of Jack Welch.
The CEO as Professor.
Professor Welch Takes a Class.
Early Strategic Initiatives.
Late Strategic Initiatives.
The Strategic Check List.
The Grand GE Tool-Kit.
288 pages
