'Neutron' Jack Welch, who has died at the age of 84, was one of America’s most influential managers and embodied the past century’s “cult of the CEO”.
Copy link
Copied
Subscribe to gift this article
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Already a subscriber? Login
As head of General Electric from 1981 to 2001, Jack Welch took the company founded by Thomas Edison a century before and brutally transformed it into the biggest US company by market value.
Believing that leaders should appoint lieutenants cleverer than they are, he created a system of managerial excellence that spawned a whole cohort of senior executives, many of whom went on to head other companies. Indirectly, he inspired many more.
Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
Fetching latest articles
Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/death-of-america-s-manager-of-the-century-20200303-p546b3
