Slater Robert Knihy

Kniha amerického autora čerpá ze zkušeností dnes již legendárního šéfa společnosti General Electric Jacka Welche. Je určena těm manažerům, kteří se chtějí dozvědět, jak se Welch stal jedním z nejuznávanějších představitelů světového vrcholového managementu a jak dosáhl toho, ževe všech 12 podnikatelských oblastech, v nichž se angažuje, je firma GE první nebo druhá na světě.

Kniha amerického autora čerpá ze zkušeností dnes již legendárního šéfa společnosti General Electric Jacka Welche. Je určena těm manažerům, kteří se chtějí dozvědět, jak se Welch stal jedním z nejuznávanějších představitelů světového vrcholového managementu a jak dosáhl toho, že ve všech 12 podnikatelských oblastech, v nichž se angažuje, je firma GE první nebo druhá na světě.

Based on years of research and extensive interviews, this book explores Rabin the man, statesman, and the soldier. It also delivers an up-to-the-minute account of his assassination and its aftermath. This balanced portrait covers Rabin's varied and controversial political career.

This 2015 edition includes profiles of more than one hundred Jewish women who have had a great impact in their respective fields of endeavor, including Golda Meir, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbra Streisand, and U.S. senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Their unusual achievements are interestingly presented and their relationships to Judaism highlighted. With black-and-white photographs.

GE's John F. Welch knows a thing or two about change, about management, about getting things done. In 1981, when Welch took over as CEO, GE was only 10th in market value among American public companies. By 1993, GE sales had surged to $60.6 billion and the company was sharing the market lead with the likes of Exxon and AT&T. How did Jack Welch do it? The answer: Welch implemented a tough but flexible agenda that contained some of the very best business ideas corporate America had ever seen. What if you could take some of those ideas and apply them to your own corporation, your own management style? What if you knew the secret to Jack Welch's success? Get Better or Get Beaten! examines 31 of those secrets in a fast-paced, easy-to-digest format that reads like a "manager's little instruction book." Here are the personal beliefs, bywords, principles, and techniques that helped Jack Welch become the most respected CEO in America.

The first concise book of essential Welch-isms, abridged from the bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch follows in Welch's footsteps, boiling the legendary CEO's leadership successes down to 29 strategies that made GE the world's most competitive company­­and Welch the world's most successful and admired CEO. This all-in-one Welch reference updates material from Robert Slater's bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten , and is today's ultimate fast-paced, no-nonsense handbook on the ways of Jack Welch. It taps into the heart of Welch's courage, innovation, and leadership success by examining simple leadership secrets that include:

Behind the scenes with the legendary CEO Jack Welch’s innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch and the GE Way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access to Welch and other prominent GE insiders. What emerged is a brilliant portrait that tells you what makes Jack Welch tick. Learn how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market. Get details on Welch’s far-reaching Six Sigma quality initiative, and discover how its principles and standards can save billions of dollars...how and why he has made GE a truly global company (and why you must think global as well)...and all the other Welch "midas touch" strategies you can put to work in your organization, at every level!

Through in-depth interviews with Soros and his closest advisors as well as an overview of his investment strategies, the major successes and significant influences of this powerful investor in finance and politics are presented in an updated business biography from the author of Jack Welch and the GE Way.

"If management is an art, then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master painter."- BusinessWeek Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in business history. Welch’s groundbreaking programs—including Six Sigma and Work-Out—along with his numerous strategies on business leadership have helped transform GE into the global benchmark for maximized productivity and labor efficiency. Now, The GE Way Fieldbook explains how you can implement the same programs that helped turn GE into a $100 billion juggernaut. Drawing from his unprecedented access to GE’s top-level corridors of power—including a never-before-published full-length interview with Jack Welch—veteran business author Robert Slater packs innovative strategies, easy-to-use diagnostic exercises, detailed questionnaires, and more into the most hands-on, applications-oriented book ever written on General Electric. Only in The GE Way Fieldbook will you find:

An examination of Microsoft's reinvention under the leadership of CEO Steve Ballmer discusses the ways in which the company survived such challenges as a federal antitrust trial, the dot-com revolution, and a recession, relating how it implemented numerous successful changes to become the world's second most recognizable brand. 50,000 first printing.