Power Failure : The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

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Power Failure
: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

作者:WilliamD.Cohan

出版社:AllenLane

副标题:TheRiseandFallofanAmericanIcon

出版年:2022-11-15

页数:816

定价:GBP25.00

装帧:Hardcover

ISBN:9780241408780

内容简介
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Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE built a cult of leadership success that hid cracks in its foundation. In a masterful appraisal of the company that claimed to "bring good things to life," William B. Cohan, one of America's most eminent financial journalists, argues that GE's legacy is both a paragon and a cautionary tale through which to understand American business.

Power Failure limns the eventful 125-year history of GE, bringing fresh analysis and new insight drawn from rare interviews with key figures of the company's golden era, including Jack Welch himself. Beginning with its founding, innovations, and massive growth through acquisitions and mergers, Cohan explores the truth beneath GE's storied management culture and its pioneering doctrine of shareholder value – ultimately revealing that GE wasn't immune to the maladies of other corporations.

Drawing from frank and rare interviews, Cohan delivers an insider look at the contributions of its legendary CEOs, and what was really going on behind the myth-making-yielding never-told stories about Welch's twenty-two years at the helm, in which he traded on a sterling legacy of industrial prowess and technological innovation to make GE the most valuable company in the world, while cloaking its vulnerabilities. What he handed to his carefully chosen successor Jeffrey Immelt was, Cohan argues, both an impossible standard and a more troubled reality.

Tracing the company's leaps and stumbles through the personalities that defined it, Power Failure offers a surprising retelling of the GE story, puncturing the myth we know for a fresh look at its legacy – and what it tells us about the state of business in America.

作者简介
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William D. Cohan is the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Silence, Money and Power, House of Cards, and The Last Tycoons, which won the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. He is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and writes a biweekly opinion column in The New York Times. He has also written for theFinancial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Cohan is a graduate of Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

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眼见他起高楼,眼见他宴宾客,眼见他楼塌了。通用电气的没落令人唏嘘

眼见他起高楼,眼见他宴宾客,眼见他楼塌了。通用电气的没落令人唏嘘

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