Comments on: Jack Welch needs to play more golf http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/ Advice at the intersection of work and life Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:14:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: jrandom42 http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/#comment-134489 jrandom42 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:26:00 +0000 http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/#comment-134489 Got laid off by Neutron Jack after bringing in a serious project ahead of schedule and under budget. Got it rolled out and it was an immediate hit, reducing complexity and cost in the parts ordering system. Our reward? At the post project meeting, got handed envelopes that supposedly had our completion bonuses, only to find a pink slip and security waiting outside to escort us out, without even time to clean out our desks. It's been 26 years, but I still hate Neutron (like the neutron bomb, kills off the people but leaves the buildings intact) Jack Welch with the burning intensity of a hundred thousand supernovas. Got laid off by Neutron Jack after bringing in a serious project ahead of schedule and under budget. Got it rolled out and it was an immediate hit, reducing complexity and cost in the parts ordering system. Our reward? At the post project meeting, got handed envelopes that supposedly had our completion bonuses, only to find a pink slip and security waiting outside to escort us out, without even time to clean out our desks.

It’s been 26 years, but I still hate Neutron (like the neutron bomb, kills off the people but leaves the buildings intact) Jack Welch with the burning intensity of a hundred thousand supernovas.

]]> By: finance girl http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/#comment-931 finance girl Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:09:51 +0000 http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/#comment-931 Probably similiar to like Steve Ballmer talking about how important emotional intelligence is! (rings false). But I still like their advice, and think the workplace really does come down to competition. Then again consider where I spent the last 6 years! :-) Probably similiar to like Steve Ballmer talking about how important emotional intelligence is! (rings false). But I still like their advice, and think the workplace really does come down to competition. Then again consider where I spent the last 6 years! :-)

]]> By: Penelope Trunk http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/#comment-930 Penelope Trunk Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:32:38 +0000 http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/#comment-930 I actually went out and bought the magazine so that I could read the advice that you refer to. So in a way you could say that Jack and Suzy are increasing magazine sales. But I still don't like them. This is my problem. I can't separate who they are from the advice they are giving. Jack is so, so competitive. And his whole life was about winning, and I don't see him as a particulalrly multidimensional guy who is finding innovative definitions of success. So hearing him talk about how you have to have your own version of success when his is so increibly conventional really rings false to me. I actually went out and bought the magazine so that I could read the advice that you refer to. So in a way you could say that Jack and Suzy are increasing magazine sales.

But I still don’t like them. This is my problem. I can’t separate who they are from the advice they are giving. Jack is so, so competitive. And his whole life was about winning, and I don’t see him as a particulalrly multidimensional guy who is finding innovative definitions of success. So hearing him talk about how you have to have your own version of success when his is so increibly conventional really rings false to me.

]]> By: finance girl http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/#comment-929 finance girl Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:32:43 +0000 http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/18/jack-welch-needs-to-play-more-golf/#comment-929 Yah, he and Suzy's article started appearing every week in BusWeek a few months ago. I actually like some of their advice, but then other advice I have been skeptical of. However overall I think they are on target. For example, I have this week's right here: 1) how to navigate a family owned business and 2) what defines success. Did you see that answer for #2? Not outmoded at all and IMO is spot on (winning isn't measured in only economic terms). Yah, he and Suzy’s article started appearing every week in BusWeek a few months ago. I actually like some of their advice, but then other advice I have been skeptical of. However overall I think they are on target. For example, I have this week’s right here: 1) how to navigate a family owned business and 2) what defines success. Did you see that answer for #2? Not outmoded at all and IMO is spot on (winning isn’t measured in only economic terms).

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