Get Better Or Get Beaten

by Robert Slater

Do business like Jack Welch When Jack Welch took the reins of General Electric in 1981, he reformulated GE in his own image -- tough, smart, competitive, and relentless. First published in 1994, Get Better or Get Beaten became a bestseller as managers sought to understand and mimic the success ;of the man lauded by Fortune as "...perhaps the most admired CEO of his generation." Now, on the eve of his planned April retirement, the new Get Better or Get Beaten, Second Edition shows you how to compete "Welch style" in today's techologically advanced business arena. Look to this fast-paced book
*Jack Welch's latest views on management and leadership
*Examples of how Welch transformed GE into an e-business
*Insights into Six Sigma and other s;uccessfulk GE quality initiatives
*More

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Leadership, Management

194 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1994

About the author

Robert Slater was an American author and journalist known for over two dozen books, including biographies of political and business figures such as Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, George Soros, and Donald Trump.
Slater was born in Manhattan and grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia High School in 1962 and graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, with a degree in political science. In 1967 he received a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. He worked for United Press International (UPI) from 1969 to 1971 before moving to Jerusalem, where he worked for UPI until 1974; and for Time magazine in Jerusalem from 1976 to 1996. From 1987 and 1990 he was chairman of the Foreign Press Association in Israel. In his later years he was a columnist for The Jerusalem Report, and mentored young journalists at The Jerusalem Post. He lived for much of his life in Israel, and with his wife, Elinor, co-authored the books Great Jewish Women and Great Jewish Men.

Reviews

[Todd Benschneider · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent read, renews your focus on the daily battle against competitors.

[Henry Barry]

A very short but incredibly insightful text on management. This book does tells the story of how Jack Welch turned G.E. into a business powerhouse, explaining how he did it. The takeaways that come to mind are removing wasteful bureaucracy, empowering every worker and harnessing everyone's ideas, only sticking in industries where you can be either number 1 or 2, and not letting the past dictate the future. Welch wasn't afraid to change something that wasn't broken, and in doing so, he made a great thing even better. On a more personal level, I really enjoyed thinking about these lessons as applied to my own life: focus only on what is important and gives you the most outcome. Don't waste time on things that never really get you anything. I found that when I looked at my life in that light, I found a lot of unnecessary things in it that were stealing time and not adding benefit.

[A.R. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an insightful book about a CEO that did what he had to do for his corporation to succeed.

[Shubham Srivastava]

A very well written ,simple book on Mr.Welch's methodologies at GE..A must read for all Six Sigma followers and business management students.

[Daniel Dawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good, though a little outdated. (Was written before Welch's deal with Honeywell fell through) I'd go for Welch's Winning instead...