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Title: Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: Revised Edition by Noel M. Tichy, Stratford Sherman ISBN: 0-06-093738-6 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 21 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An educational, yet entertaining, read
Comment: I came into this book assuming a book on the history of Jack Welch's early years with GE. It ended up being much more and I was pleasantly surprised at the overall educational value of the book.
The book is broken down into three "acts" which recount the years of Jack Welch - when and how he was made the CEO with GE, the early years of layoffs, the early resistance to his ideas, reorganization of GE, the need for globalization, and eventual acceptance of his ideas as he empowered GE's employees. Welch's ideas of empowering the employee encompassed such things as "boundarylessness", strong values, leadership, simplicity, and productivity. As the book progresses, the reader is provided with the real world GE examples that qualified Jack's ideas and their results. Nor does the book hold back from describing Jack's missteps and describes the lessons learned.
Overall the book was a good read. The examples read as stories that both entertain and educate. Welch's ideas, as presented in Control Your Destiny, are probably now considered common sense business practices. The ideas seem simple today, yet were revolutionary for that time as you'll read.
The end of the book provides a manual that can be used to carry out a similar revolution with your business and employees. I didn't really work my way through it - it seemed more appropriate for larger organizations.
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific
Comment: Tichy is a guru of all gurus and he has a winner with this book. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lessons from GE's Revolution
Comment: 'Control Destiny or Someone Else Will' is deeply insightful and comprehensive examination of GE's transformation. It contains detailed, valuable lessons for all those interested in Jack Welch and his GE, as revolutionaries.
Noel M.Tichy and Stratford Sherman write, "The old way, exemplified by Henry Ford's production line, calls for top managers to analyze the work that needs to be done, then devise rules even an idiot can follow. Managers, divorced from the actual work, become bureaucrats, while their frustrated subordinates tighten the bolts...The new way-GE's way-breaks the intellectual framework that defines the limits of traditional management...Instead of seeking better ways to control workers, Welch says he aims to liberate them. As he explains, that goal is based on self-interest: The old organization was built on control, but the world has changed. The world is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It slows you down. You've got to balance freedom with some control, but you've got to have more freedom than you ever dreamed of" (pp.19-20).
At this point, after outlining basic characteristics of old and new ways, Noel M.Tichy describes the difference between them in terms of sports:
1. Old Way-Machine Age: Hierarchical, control-focused, and bureaucratic. He notes, "The old GE resembled a football team: Each player had carefully prescribed roles, yielding a carefully orchestrated pattern. The coach called all the plays. Even the strategic-planning guidebook that governed GE policy were like the playbooks in football."
2. New Way-Information Age: Networks, flexibility, knowledge, and creation. He notes, "The New Way GE is like hockey; roles are blurred, play flows uncontrollably from one side of the rink to the other, there are no timeouts, players adjust to new situations almost every moment and think for themselves while looking out for the team as a whole."
In this context, throughout the book, Tichy and Sherman show GE's process of corporate transformation as three-act drama.
I highly recommend this business classic to all revolutionaries of the new century.
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Title: The Leadership Engine by Noel M. Tichy ISBN: 0887309313 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Cycle of Leadership : How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win by Noel M. Tichy, Nancy Cardwell ISBN: 0066620562 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Get Better or Get Beaten by Robert Slater ISBN: 0071373462 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 26 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch, John A. Byrne ISBN: 0446528382 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO by Robert Slater ISBN: 0070581045 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 31 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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