As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, he has built its market
cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired
business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma
quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern
corporation. At the same time, he's a gutsy boss who has forged a unique
philosophy and an operating system that relies on a "boundaryless" sharing of
ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that
makes bureaucracy the enemy. In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor,
Jack Welch gives us the people (most notably his