Lights Out
by Thomas Gryta, Ted Mann · first published 2020
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…book is an intriguing description of the struggles of Jeff Immelt and later GE execs to keep up GE's success after Welch's departure. In particular, trying to manage GE Finance: https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-Delusion-General-Electric/...
on “What Jack Welch Got Wrong (Just About Everything)” ↗I enjoyed Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric by Ted Mann and Thomas Gryta
on “NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9” ↗…fall of of GE. If I remember correctly the book basically confirms what you said about Immelt inheriting a lot of problems that were hidden behind accounting complexity at GE. https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-Delusion-General-Electric/... Not that Immelt was a star either, but he he wasn't the person who created a lot of these problems.
on “Was Jack Welch the greatest CEO of his day, or the worst?” ↗