The rules for succeeding in business have changed. Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will superbly defines those changes and explains how Jack Welch engineered one of the most successful transformations of a corporate culture in American business history.Anyone at any level in business will profit from this account of the renaissance of GE.

Acknowledged as the outstanding business leader of the late twentieth century,JackWelch made General Electric one of the world's most competitive companies.This dynamic CEO defined the standard for organizational change, creating more than $400 billion in shareholder value by transforming a bureaucratic behemoth into a nimble, scrappy winner in the global marketplace.

Here, Tichy and Sherman extract the enduring leadership lessons from the revolution Welch wrought at GE. Of these, the most essential is the limitless power of learning. Leadership has its mysteries, but it is a skill that anyone can acquire and enhance. Above all, great leaders select great people and lure them into an endless process of learning and adaptation.

Authors' Note

Editor's Note

Acknowledgments

Act One

THE AWAKENING

Introduction by Stratford Sherman (2001)

1. The GE Revolution

2. The Business Engine

3. The Hand He Was Dealt

4. The New Leader

5. The Power of Ideas

6. "Kick-Starting the Revolution"

7. Nothing Sacred

8. Facing Reality

9. The MirrorTest

10. TheTurning Point

Act Two

THE VISION 

1. Crotonville

2. The Politics of Speed

13. The New Order

14. Getting Excited

15. Globalization

Act Three

REVOLUTION AS A WAY OF LIFE

16. Work-Out

17. The Twenty-First-Century Organization

18. Head, Heart, and Guts

19. Jack Welch Speaks His Mind (1992)

20. Jack Welch Speaks His Mind (1999)

21. Afterword by Noel Tichy (2001)

22. Afterword to the 2005 Edition

GE TIMELINE

GE Timeline

Jack Welch's Annual Letters to Share Owners,

Notes

Sources

HANDBOOK FOR REVOLUTIONARIES

Index