Winning - Jack Welch Book Analysis

Winning - Jack Welch Book Analysis

Winning
By Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc
Copyright 2005 by Jack Welch, LLC

Winning was written for the sole purpose of answering questions about business and management. Over the past years Jack Welch has received thousands of questions from business owners, HR directors, team managers, and employees alike. After visiting such people in many parts of the world, Jack has decided to put all the answers into one book. Many questions that have been asked started during an autobiography tour in 2001 and 2002. As former CEO of GE Jack has a reputation of winning and many look up to him for his insight. Armed with a unique perception of business and how a company should be run, Mr. Welch takes on the simple yet hardest questions relating to business practices. The book is divided up into four main parts; underneath it all, your company, your competition, and your career.   Each section covers a different category of questions attempting to shed light on the gray area of business decisions.


In Jack Welch’s latest book Winning (Welch), he attempts to answer questions relating to how businesses should adapt organizational behavior techniques. Kreitner and Kinicki have written the text book called Organizational Behavior (OB). OB writes the rules and Welch breaks them. Both battle it out to decide what is the best way to take on the organizational disarray of today’s business. Here they will battle out how motivation, goals, six sigma, and change should be implemented in businesses and groups around the world.
Before the bell dings, it is important to go over some major themes of Welch’s book. The four major sections are; underneath it all, your company, your competition, and your career. Welch starts the discussion off with the distinction of mission and values.
Mission answers the question “how are we going to win in this business” (Welch, 2005). Welch believes that each one of his businesses must be...