29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch

Robert Slater has over 25 years of experience writing for Time, Newsweek, and UPI. Slater has written a number of bestselling business books, including Jack Welch and the GE Way; The New York Times business bestseller Ovitz: The Inside Story of Hollywood’s Most Controversial Powerbroker; Get Better or Get Beaten: 31 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch, and Soros: The Life, Times, & Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor. His latest book, Saving Big Blue: Leadership Lessons & Turnaround Tactics of IBM’s Lou Gerstner, was published in September 1999.

• Part I The Visionary Leader: Management Tactics for Gaining the Competitive EdgeLeadership Secret 1 Harness the Power of ChangeLeadership Secret 2 Face Reality!Leadership Secret 3 Managing Less Is Managing BetterLeadership Secret 4 Create a Vision and Then Get Out of the WayLeadership Secret 5 Don’t Pursue a Central Idea; Instead, Set Only a Few Clear, General Goals as Business StrategiesLeadership Secret 6 Nurture Employees Who Share the Company’s ValuesPart II Igniting a Revolution: Strategies for Dealing with ChangeLeadership Secret 7 Keep Watch for Ways to Create Opportunities and to Become More CompetitiveLeadership Secret 8 Be Number One or Number Two and Keep Redefining Your MarketLeadership Secret 9 Downsize, Before It’s Too Late!Leadership Secret 10 Use Acquisitions to Make the Quantum Leap!Leadership Secret 11 Learning Culture I: Use Boundarylessness and Empowerment to Nurture a Learning CultureLeadership Secret 12 Learning Culture II: Inculcate the Best Ideas into the Business, No Matter Where They Come FromLeadership Secret 13 The Big Winners in the Twenty-first Century Will Be GlobalPart III Removing the Boss Element: Productivity Secrets for Creating the Boundaryless OrganizationLeadership Secret 14 De-Layer: Get Rid of the Fat!Leadership Secret 15 Spark Productivity Through the ‘‘S’’ Secrets (Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence)Leadership Secret 16 Act Like a Small CompanyLeadership Secret 17 Remove the Boundaries!Leadership Secret 18 Unleash the Energy of Your WorkersLeadership Secret 19 Listen to the People Who Actually Do the WorkLeadership Secret 20 Go Before Your Workers and Answer All Their QuestionsPart IV Next Generation Leadership: Initiatives for Driving and Sustaining Double-digit GrowthLeadership Secret 21 Stretch: Exceed Your Goals as Often as You CanLeadership Secret 22 Make Quality a Top PriorityLeadership Secret 23 Make Quality the Job of Every EmployeeLeadership Secret 24 Make Sure Everyone Understands How Six Sigma WorksLeadership Secret 25 Make Sure the Customer Feels QualityLeadership Secret 26 Grow Your Service Business: It’s the Wave of the FutureLeadership Secret 27 Take Advantage of E-Business OpportunitiesLeadership Secret 28 Make Existing Businesses Internet-Ready—Don’t Assume That New Business Models Are the AnswerLeadership Secret 29 Use E-Business to Put the Final Nail in BureaucracyAfterword