作者：ThomasGryta/TedMann
出版社：HoughtonMifflinHarcour
副标题：Pride,Delusion,andtheFallofGeneralElectric
出版年：2020-7-21
页数：368
定价：USD21.47
装帧：精装
ISBN：9780358250418
内容简介
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Review
“A gripping and deeply reported account of the devastating disintegration of one of the most iconic firms ever to exist. To all of us shocked by GE’s seemingly abrupt fall from grace, this book lays out in painful detail how such a thing could have happened.”—Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School, author of Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen
“Gryta and Mann tell a bracing tale of corporate venality, incompetence, and shortsighted deal-making. It's a parable with no heroes, but many lessons for anyone who wants to know how 21st Century corporate management, which venerates stock price above all other measures of value, has gone so disastrously awry.” —Andrew Rice, New York Magazine
"Lights Out is the definitive story of an American business powerhouse losing its way. Gryta and Mann's meticulous reporting puts us in the rooms—and on the private jets—where GE's leaders struggled over the company's fate, with billions of dollars in the balance. More than just an intimate profile of one company, this book is a captivating tale of human complexity, greed, and hubris." —Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind: Drugs. Murder. Empire. Betrayal
"This vital history of an American institution warns us of what happens when a company pursues growth for growth’s sake, and its leaders struggle to understand what they can and cannot control." —David Gura, Anchor and Correspondent, MSNBC
"Possessing all the suspense of a true-crime account, Gryta and Mann’s riveting look at GE’s previous two decades underlines the harsh facts of survival in 21st-century business." —Publishers Weekly
"Gryta and Mann expand on their Wall Street Journal reporting to create a compelling narrative of a giant’s spectacular fall in this powerful and fascinating read." —Booklist
"This revealing and accessible postmortem of GE’s downward spiral will be important reading for a wide audience, including customers, employees, former employees, and investors, as well as anyone interested in 21st-century corporate management." —Library Journal
作者简介
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About the Author
THOMAS GRYTA writes about General Electric for the Wall Street Journal. Previously he covered the telecommunications industry for the Journal and was a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University. In prior work around the newsroom he covered the biotechnology industry and did general assignment reporting and copyediting. Gryta studied history at the University of Massachusetts, including a year in Germany. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.
TED MANN is a reporter in the Wall Street Journal's Washington Bureau, where he is part of a team covering business and government. He was the beat reporter covering General Electric and other industrial conglomerates for the Journal's corporate bureau in New York from 2014 to 2017, and previously covered transportation for the Greater New York section, where he broke the George Washington Bridge scandal that ensnared former governor Chris Christie and his aides. He is a graduate of New York University.
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写的比较详细（拖沓）的一本书，在一开始做笔记，后来已经看累了……其实Jeff Welch鼎盛之时就埋下了衰败的种子，其兴也勃焉，其亡也忽焉。
这是夏天rosemary和她的团队来我家看电影带过来的..今天抽空凑合看了下。90%是作者根据公开资料做的案头整理工作 10%是smoothing provision性质的填充.太多修饰性的废话了…里面techinical error太多了..不过同意作者的一点是GE is an american institution..然后一路咔嚓…
无限感触….好多部分触动我的心，通用走向衰弱是个渐进的过程。大家都努力着，可惜都没天时地利人和。可以和通用一起走进历史，虽然悲伤，也不为是一种荣幸
正读到中间有点儿无聊的部分，开头不错。看到subprime mortgage的瞬间我就笑了……what a lesson；读完了，后面有点儿草草结尾，Alstom收了之后怎么又write off 20bn loss了？也没解释清楚，还替GE委屈上了，Alstom并不开心好吧。我看GE这条船没救了，不是因为Jeff，而是因为美国经济无可避免的回不去了
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