Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric | 誠品線上

Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

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內容簡介 【比爾蓋茲推薦書單：2021夏季推薦書單 】 華爾街日報暢銷書 「無論你擔任的是哪一種領導角色，在一般公司、非營利組織，還是其他類型，都可以在這裡學到很多東西。」—比爾蓋茲，「蓋茲筆記」（Gates Notes）。美國最具指標性的公司一「通用電氣」，怎麼會突然跌落神壇？正如兩位《華爾街日報》記者Ted Mann和Thomas Gryta 所言，這絕對是通用電氣的衰落史。「通用電氣」（GE，General Electric）自 1892 年成立以來，不僅是一家公司。它歷經了好幾個世代，它是工作保障、可靠的安全投資，以及對高階商業管理人員的精英教育。「通用電氣」以前所未有的方式融入美國社會，使美國電氣化，從燈泡到渦輪機，為一切事物提供動力。在傳奇的首席執行長傑克·韋爾奇 (Jack Welch) 的領導的二十年下，「通用電氣」進入了 21 世紀，成為美國最有價值的公司。然而，不到二十年後，「通用電氣」竟消失了。Lights Out檢視了繼任者傑夫·伊梅爾特 (Jeff Immelt) 如何試圖修復盈利機器中的缺陷，卻同時一頭栽進自己的錯誤中。最後，「通用電氣」，那股不惜一切代價的傳統文化似乎失去了方向...導致公司在個人和組織層面上都開始走下坡。本書詳實地道來，美國歷史上最偉大的公司之一，如何成為我們這個時代的警示預言。How could General Electric—perhaps America’s most iconic corporation—suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?This is the definitive history of General Electric’s epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall.Since its founding in 1892, GE has been more than just a corporation. For generations, it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers.GE electrified America, powering everything from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the American societal mindset as few companies ever had. And after two decades of leadership under legendary CEO Jack Welch, GE entered the twenty-first century as America’s most valuable corporation. Yet, fewer than two decades later, the GE of old was gone.​Lights Out examines how Welch’s handpicked successor, Jeff Immelt, tried to fix flaws in Welch’s profit machine, while stumbling headlong into mistakes of his own. In the end, GE’s traditional win-at-all-costs driven culture seemed to lose its direction, which ultimately caused the company’s decline on both a personal and organizational scale. Lights Out details how one of America’s all-time great companies has been reduced to a cautionary tale for our times."

作者介紹

作者介紹 TED MANN is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where he covered General Electric from 2014 to 2017. He lives in Washington, DC. THOMAS GRYTA writes about General Electric and other industrial conglomerates for the Wall Street Journal. He lives in New Jersey.

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