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Broadcasting: GE owns the US television network NBC which has, among other assets, the US rights to the Olympics until 2008. Various other operations including CNBC and MSNBC. Page 16 Plastics: Engineered plastics for a variety of industries including building and computing. Power systems: The design, manufacture and service of gas, steam and hydroelectric turbines and generators. And, controversially, nuclear fuels and services. Transportation systems: Locomotives and similar products. GE makes more than half of the diesel freight locomotives in North America.
10 Manage the corner store. Jack Welch manages GE as if it was a corner store. The same things matter. Quality and service. Cash flow. Keeping abreast of what sells, what part of the business is doing well. People. The fact that you are selling nuclear power plants and not candy bars is immaterial. Notes 1. Lowe, Janet, Jack Welch Speaks, John Wiley, New York, 1998. 2. Peters, Tom, Thriving on Chaos, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1987. 3. Swoboda, Frank, ''Jack Welch and the boundaryless company,'' Washington Post, February 27, 1994.
How many actually convert that trite corporate truism into practice day in, day out? Not many. "By the time people become CEOs they are preoccupied with survival and money. They respond to capital markets, stockholders, etc. Even if they try or want to be people-oriented, a financial crisis will always get their attention," says MIT's Ed Schein. 2 Jack Welch appears to be an exception. People are the bread and butter of his managerial style. People matteror are made to feel as though they matter.