Tag: General Electric
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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon by William D. Cohan
The most readable corporate profile I have read in years, maybe ever, but Cohan has really written detailed biographies of Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt. It succeeds at that level. Cohan sums up the first eight decades of GE’s existence in about 150 pages, which felt way too rushed. But when Welch shows up, Cohan’s…