The Investor's Shelf — one person
Jack Welch
Chairman and CEO of General Electric, 1981-2001.
7 biographies about them
Biographies about them 7
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.
William D. Cohan · 2022 · The full GE history; the most complete verdict on what Welch built.
Noel M. Tichy, Stratford Sherman · 1993 · Written with GE's cooperation at the height of the Welch cult.
Thomas Gryta, Ted Mann · 2020 · The unwinding after Welch; traces the damage to his tenure.
David Gelles · 2022 · The reassessment that fixed the current view of Welch's legacy.
Thomas F. O'Boyle · 1998 · The contemporaneous dissent, twenty years ahead of the consensus.
Robert Slater · 1998 · Contemporary admiring account; useful as a record of what people believed.
