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...And under the leadership of Gary Wendt it expanded greatly in insurance and leasing. Welch loved GE Capital....
...But in 2004, when Gary Kelly took the helm, employees (who were subsequently called “cost units”) took a back seat to capital management....
...“It was Gary Loveman [former chief executive of the Caesars casino business] who said: ‘If you want to be liked, get a dog. A dog will love you unconditionally.’...
...And the idea was that boards were supposed to balance out the totemic CEOs, the kind of Jack Welch-era individuals who we all put on a pedestal....
...Jack Welch, its chair and chief executive for 20 years until 2001, personified its reputation for being able to manage any business....
...From a different perspective, Gary Gerstle’s The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era traces how the western world embraced “neoliberalism” and the creed of...
...healthcare, energy and aviation companies General Electric yesterday revealed plans to break into three separate companies, marking the final step in the undoing of the sprawling group created by Jack Welch...
...In my column this week I’ve examined if anything has really changed in management over the past decade, given the high hopes of organisational evangelists such as Gary Hamel....
...When the 2008 financial crisis struck, Welch’s successor Jeff Immelt relied on $130bn in bailout funds to survive....
...Former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch once lived in the penthouse....
...Even if you bet Donald Trump would be president, for instance, you probably did not bet he would select Gary Cohn as his top economic adviser....
...Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini, of the Management Innovation Exchange project, say cutting bureaucracy could add $3tn to US annual GDP....
...The difficulty is that the famous people Campbell mentions — Branson, Nelson Mandela, Warren Buffett, Jack Welch, Clive Woodward, Bill Gates, Alex Ferguson, the Queen, Arsène Wenger and many more — are so...
...Alan Welch, a former British naval officer who joined Studs when his wife’s career took them to Brussels, thinks employers would do better to publicise groups such as Guy Tai and Studs than host socials...
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...For him, that number was Raquel Welch in a fur bikini. I don’t think he ever got tired of looking. Mr Weill had reason to love that terminal because it gave the results of the game that he played....
...He liked to tell a story of watching Arnold Palmer and Gary Player competing at an exhibition match. Their scores were even....
...If I were Jack Welch, I’d have fired the bottom 20 per cent. philip@philipdelvesbroughton.com...
...“We are placing major deals on behalf of high-net-worth clients, but the big fees commission is going to overseas banks, which appear to be less nervous than our own,” said Gary Festa, mortgage specialist...
...“Trying to get an organisation to innovate is like trying to teach a dog to walk on its hind legs,” quips Gary Hamel, the management guru....
...After she gave a speech to women employees at General Electric, Jack Welch - then chairman of the company - asked her to join the board ....
...Jeffrey Immelt and Jack Welch are wanted men in Peru. A judge in Lima ordered the arrest of the current and former General Electric chief executives this month, and of 24 other GE employees....
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