JACK WELCH LETS FLY ON BUDGETS, BONUSES, AND BUDDY BOARDS

摘要

John Francis Welch looked wan. He has made dozens of trips to Asia as CEO of General Electric and for the first time came back with a debilitating parasite. (The affliction had nothing to do with the later chest pains that led to his successful angioplasty in May.) So he could have easily withdrawn from a scheduled appearance before students and faculty at New York University's Stern School of Business, where I was to interview him. But withdrawal is not Jack Welch's style. He showed up and stayed for almost 90 minutes, talking at high speed about how he runs his giant corporation and what he likes-and what he hates-about the way companies, including his own, are managed today.