Jack Welch. Welch has been the leader who embraced change all the time and who helped GE make an outstanding turnaround when it was going down.

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Lefei Tong

Leadership Analysis Paper

03/28/12

Jack Welch

Talking about the most famous and competitive business enterprises in the world, we can never omit GE, and talking about the success of GE, we always have to mention its leader, Jack Welch. Welch has been the leader who embraced change all the time and who helped GE make an outstanding turnaround when it was going down. He joined GE in 1960 and became the youngest General Manager of GE in 1968. In 1980, Welch was announced to be the eighth CEO of GE, and started to implement all his leadership ideas into the company. During his 20 years of work at the CEO level, he has made a complete revolution to every aspect of GE's origin. GE has shifted from a highly bureaucratic corporation to a highly productive machine with high speed of production and no complexity of hierarchy. Jack Welch's successful leadership style includes several aspects, which are as follows.

First and foremost, Jack Welch has always been able to seizing the initiatives to make changes, which resulted in revolutionary progress of the entire corporation. The study of leadership is the study of