Is Jack Welch the best CEO ever or the worst CEO ever?

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Mar 29, 2024
9:31:42am

Cougrrrs Roll All-American

Is Jack Welch the best CEO ever or the worst CEO ever?

I worked for Jack Welch a couple of times and have an opinion. Obviously he had great results and not great results. So it depends on what a company wants to become and how they want to operate.

I didn't stay long. There were better things to be doing.

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Time

Is Jack Welsh the most damaging CEO for corporate culture and strategy ever? 25+

Pepe

Mar 29, 7:50am

Kind of the opposite of the type of CEO championed in "Good to Great"

tony

Mar 29, 7:58am

Good ‘ole “Neutron Jack”

LeGrandBleu

Mar 29, 8:00am

His fixation on increasing stock price over all else was incredibly devastating

Blueto

Mar 29, 8:04am

Jack Welch/GE trained MBAs need to wear that affiliation like a scarlet letter

justAnotherCoug

Mar 29, 8:27am

The current board and shareholders make our like bandits.

Kajdin

Mar 29, 8:29am

And everyone else is left holding the bag.

justAnotherCoug

Mar 29, 8:30am

Shareholders have lost huge amounts of $.

septicpumper

Mar 29, 2:08pm

RE: Is Jack Welsh the most damaging CEO for corporate culture and strategy ever? 25+

Beest

Mar 29, 9:21am

I worked for GE for a total of 6.5 years. I worked in the locomotive division

BPintheCouv

Mar 29, 9:27am

GE performed magnificiently under Welch

MyTwoCents

Mar 29, 9:31am

The issue is not the short-term financial results

sidsie716

Mar 29, 9:41am

IMO 25 years isnt short term.

Acorn

Mar 29, 9:59am

CEO from '81 - '01 right?

justAnotherCoug

Mar 29, 10:08am

GE finance was Jack Welch’s baby and personal slush fund for helping him beat

Pepe

Mar 29, 10:54am

It was never real.

justAnotherCoug

Mar 29, 9:42am

I disagree. The principles were sound and, as far as I can tell, GE's position

Mises

Mar 29, 12:33pm

It worked for 25 years

MyTwoCents

Mar 29, 3:25pm

There's good reason to be critical of Jack Welch's tenure

justAnotherCoug

Mar 29, 4:01pm

It was smoke and mirrors. His whole philosophy was line go up. Only worried

Blueto

Mar 29, 4:23pm

GE died because of his philosophies. Just because he jumped ship before the

Kajdin

Mar 29, 9:51am

It reminds me of Pete Carroll jumping ship at USC.

Mar 29, 3:14pm

Is Jack Welch the best CEO ever or the worst CEO ever?

Mar 29, 9:31am

At the time he was at GE, I ranked Welch as most overrated CEO ever. He was awful in most every important category.

roseyscenario

Mar 29, 10:01am

Not his fault they spunoff GE Units into different companies after he retired

SwanSong

Mar 29, 12:39pm

100% agree. I have a coworker who used to work for GE. Endless stories of

septicpumper

Mar 29, 2:04pm

GE stock did more than 2x as well as the S&P 500 during Welch's 20 years

MyTwoCents

Mar 29, 3:29pm

And then spiraled downhill after he left thanks to the house built on sand. His hand picked successor was disaster.

roseyscenario

Mar 29, 10:36pm

I used to have an article from Parade magazine with the following Welch advice:

hitechcpa

Mar 29, 11:16pm

I worked at GE for 11 years. Started after graduation, 2 years before Welsh

sfeuz

Mar 30, 1:15am

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