General Electric

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For decades the most admired industrial conglomerate in America, now the subject of a large post-mortem literature on financialized management.

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  1. Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General ElectricThomas Gryta, Ted Mann, 2020
  2. Jack: Straight from the GutJack Welch, John A. Byrne, 2001
  3. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American IconWilliam D. Cohan, 2022

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Jack: Straight from the Gut
T2 Jack: Straight from the Gut
Jack Welch, John A. Byrne · 2001 · Insider account: Welch's own version of the GE method.
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Mohnish PabraiJamie DimonWarren Buffett
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of
T2 Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric
Thomas Gryta, Ted Mann · 2020 · WSJ reporters on GE Capital and the accounting culture.
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Andrew Wilkinson
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an Ameri
T2 Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
William D. Cohan · 2022 · Longest and most complete narrative history of the company.
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Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will
T3 Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will
Noel M. Tichy, Stratford Sherman · 1993 · The admiring contemporary account of Welch's restructuring.
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Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great Ame
T3 Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company
Jeff Immelt, Amy Wallace · 2021 · Insider account: Immelt's defence of his sixteen years as CEO.
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The Man Who Broke Capitalism
T3 The Man Who Broke Capitalism
David Gelles · 2022 · Polemic treating Welch's GE as the template for shareholder primacy.
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