I am reading 'Winning' by Jack Welch. Quite a powerful writer. Yes, he must have been a tough boss considering his views on hiring, termination and performance appraisals :)
I had this phase a short time back when I was into business autobiographies. Somehow the power which these guys wield, more than anything else, fascinated me! However, I have to say a very common trait in these autobiographies is unabashed self-propaganda. And this is extremely evident in Straight from the Gut. Yes, he did some great stuff for GE and maybe some of the hubris is justified given his achievments. But it does get boring after a point -- maybe you will realise this after a few more of these CEO autobiographies! The characters change but they still speak the same old story.
I guess the CEO book that I liked most is Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive. It's not an autobiography but lays down his rules of competitiveness. If you ever get to lead a company in a million years this one will serve you better than Jack Welch's stories of hiring and firing :-)
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I had this phase a short time back when I was into business autobiographies. Somehow the power which these guys wield, more than anything else, fascinated me! However, I have to say a very common trait in these autobiographies is unabashed self-propaganda. And this is extremely evident in Straight from the Gut. Yes, he did some great stuff for GE and maybe some of the hubris is justified given his achievments. But it does get boring after a point -- maybe you will realise this after a few more of these CEO autobiographies! The characters change but they still speak the same old story.
I guess the CEO book that I liked most is Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive. It's not an autobiography but lays down his rules of competitiveness. If you ever get to lead a company in a million years this one will serve you better than Jack Welch's stories of hiring and firing :-)
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