Acknowledged as the outstanding business leader of the late twentieth century, Jack Welch made General Electric one of the world's most competitive companies. This dynamic CEO defined the standard for organizational change, creating more than $400 billion in shareholder value by transforming a bureaucratic behemoth into a nimble, scrappy winner in the global marketplace.
Here, Tichy and Sherman extract the enduring leadership lessons from the revolution Welch wrought at GE. Of these, the most essential is the limitless power of learning. Leadership has its mysteries, but it is a skill that anyone can acquire and enhance. Above all, great leaders select great people and lure them into an endless process of learning and adaptation.
Jack Welch's Six Rules
<ol>
<li>Control your destiny or someone else will.</li>
<li>Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were.</li>
<li>Be candid with everyone. </li>
<li>Don't manage, lead. </li>
<li>Change before you have to.</li>
<li>If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.</li>
</ol>

Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (Collins Business Essentials)

Business & Money

Tichy, Noel M.

Biography & History

HarperBusiness

Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: Revised Edition

The Best Analysis of Jack Welch's GE, Now Freshly Revised
A business classic -- now completely revised -- hailed as the unofficial GELeadership handbook.
Completely revised, with two new chapters by the authors, an added chapter-length interview with Jack Welch, plus the complete set of Welch's GE annual letters to shareholders, this title remains the classic CASE STUDY of how Welch transformed GE from a corporate dinosaur into one of the nimblest, most successful corporations in the world, and provides a useful handbook for effecting change in your business and your life. 
Since Welch became its CEO in 1981, GE has become one of the most successful companies of the late 20th century, increasing its market value from $13 billion to over $400 billion. Welch has been hailed by "60 Minutes" as the best executive in the world. This success can be attributed in large part to Jack Welch, GE's dynamic CEO who transformed the company from a bureaucratic behemoth into a fierce competitor in the global marketplace. 
Among the many books that have been written about GE, Control Your Destiny stands out. Its authors are uniquely qualified to explain Welch's transformation of GE and to explain the leadership lessons it reveals. Noel Tichy ran GE's Crotonville school during the start of the Welch era, while Stratford Sherman covered GE for Fortune magazine. Together, they study GE with a remarkable blend of inside knowledge and clear-eyed objectivity. Their narrative -- studied at business schools nationwide -- is extraordinarily thorough, thoughtful, and rich in insight.

Sherman, Stratford

Harper Paperbacks

In The Leadership Engine, Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization, and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders. 
 In this new book, he takes the theme further, showing how great companies and their leaders develop their business knowledge into ⳥achable points of view,⟳pend a great portion of their time giving their learnings to others, sharing best practices, and how they in turn learn and receive business ideas/knowledge from the employees they are teaching.
 Calling this exchange a virtuous teaching cycle, Professor Tichy shows how business builders from Jack Welch at GE to Joe Liemandt at Trilogy create organizations that foster this knowledge exchange and how their efforts result in smarter, more agile companies, and winning results. Some of these ideas were showcased in Tichy′s recent Harvard Business Review article entitled, ⍯ Ordinary Boot Camp."
 Using examples from GE, Ford, Dell, Southwest Airlines and many others, Tichy presents and analyzes these principles in action and shows how managers can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and, consequently, better-performing companies

The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win

Management & Leadership

Harper Business

How to transform an organization, based on fascinating, inside stories of major industrial companies and service companies (including Fortune 500 companies), aggressive smaller firms, and European companies. Provides insights into the styles and philosophies of leaders and executives who have transformed their companies, whether big or small, and offers practical advice on middle management's role in transforming large organizations.

Transformational Leader (Wiley Management Classic)

Devanna, Mary Anne

wiley

The Transformational Leader: The Key to Global Competitiveness

The first book to examine the strategic and planning importance of the management of human resources. Prominent authors address current trends and business responses, the practices and methodology of human resource systems, and those issues likely to be of greatest importance in the future. Chapters detailing the use of HRM by companies such as Chase Manhattan, GM, GE, and Westinghouse point out the implications and limitations of the concepts discussed.

Strategic Human Resource Management

Fombrun, Charles J.

Shows how managers can use the conceptual framework of TPC theory (technical, political, and cultural dynamics) to cope with major strategic reorientation. Raises such fundamental questions about the nature of organizations. What business(es) should we be in? Who should reap what benefits from the organization? What are the values and norms of organizational members? Provides concepts and workable technologies for dealing with these questions and preparing for future change. Includes extensive examples.

Managing Strategic Change: Technical, Political, and Cultural Dynamics (Wiley Series on Organizational Assessment and Change)

Why do some companies consistently win in the consumer and capital markets while others struggle from crisis to crisis? The answer, says Noel Tichy, is that winning companies possess a "Leadership Engine" -- a proven system for creating dynamic leaders at every level.To get ahead and stay ahead, a company needs agile, flexible, innovative leaders who can anticipate change and turn on a dime. Fortunately, says Tichy, just as everyone has untapped athletic potential, everyone has untapped leadership potential that can be developed. In this audio, Tichy offers colorful and insightful examples from dozens of leaders who have figured out how to do it.How does Jack Welch, for example, run the world's most valuable company -- and spend 30% of his time on leadership development?How do the United States Navy SEALs and Army Rangers create leaders who can command any team, anytime, anywhere?How did Ameritech break its hundred-year-old mentality of entitlement and create a culture where leaders develop other leaders?No two winning companies are alike. But, each has a Leadership Engine which ensures that leaders have clear, teachable points of view that they use to develop others. This audio not only offers a major contribution to the understanding of successful leadership, but provides concrete, proven methods for leaders developing leaders in any company.

The Leadership Engine : How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level (AUDIO CASSETTE)

HarperAudio

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Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (Collins Business Essentials)

Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: Revised Edition

The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win

Transformational Leader (Wiley Management Classic)

The Transformational Leader: The Key to Global Competitiveness

Strategic Human Resource Management

The Transformational Leader: The Key to Global Competitiveness

Managing Strategic Change: Technical, Political, and Cultural Dynamics (Wiley Series on Organizational Assessment and Change)

The Leadership Engine : How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level (AUDIO CASSETTE)

Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will CD