Ran General Electric from 1981 to 2001, during which its market value grew from $14 billion to $600 billion. Died in 2020.
1 book of their own · 7 biographies about them
Running General Electric from 1981 to 2001, as told on retiring.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett
Jack: Straight from the Gut | Running General Electric from 1981 to 2001, as told on retiring. | 2001 | T2 | Mohnish Pabrai, Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett |
His own Jack: Straight from the Gut was written with John Byrne and sits in the author files; the books here are the outside assessments.
General Electric from its founding to its dismantling, from Welch to Culp.
The admiring contemporary account of Welch's restructuring.
How GE fell from the world's most valuable company to a conglomerate split in three.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates
Polemic treating Welch's GE as the template for shareholder primacy.
The contemporaneous dissent, twenty years ahead of the consensus.
Contemporary admiring account; useful as a record of what people believed.
| Jack Welch, G.E. Chief Who Became a Business Superstar, Dies at 84 Paywall | The New York Times | 2020 |
| Jack Welch obituary | The Guardian | 2020 |
| Jack Welch, Legendary CEO of General Electric, Dies at Age 84 Paywall | The Wall Street Journal | 2020 |
| Jack Welch, corporate America's 'manager of the century,' dies at 84 Paywall | The Washington Post | 2020 |