{"id":25177,"date":"2020-03-02T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=25177"},"modified":"2020-03-02T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:54:48","slug":"jack-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/jack-welch\/","title":{"rendered":"<Jack Welch>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"link-70cbb438\" class=\"css-1s4ffep e1h9rw200\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Jack Welch, former GE CEO, has died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is a sad day for the entire GE family,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/executive-interviews\/turning-a-giant-around\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GE CEO Larry Culp<\/a>\u00a0in a statement Sunday, February 1st, and it was because 84 year-old Jack Welch passed away due to renal failure.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0became CEO of GE in 1981 and led it until his retirement in 2001 through two decades of extraordinary corporate prosperity, becoming one of the most influential business manager of his generation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/02\/business\/jack-welch-died.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports The New York Times<\/a>. During those two decades, the financial might and market value GE enjoyed of turned him into &#8220;Manager of the Century&#8221; by Fortune magazine in 1999. By combining strategic insights with managerial innovations, GE\u2019s revenue <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/02\/business\/jack-welch-obituary\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jumped nearly fivefold under his tenure<\/a> to $130 billion, while the value of its shares on the stock market soared from $14 billion to more than $410 billion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jack was larger than life and the heart of GE for half a century,&#8221; <strong>Culp noted<\/strong>,&#8221;He reshaped the face of our company and the business world. Jack was a strong and constant influence throughout my career despite never having worked directly for him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"css-brehiz e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/steve-lohr\"><span class=\"css-1baulvz\">Steve Lohr<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\"><a class=\"css-brehiz e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/peter-eavis\">Peter Eavis<\/a>\u00a0reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/02\/business\/jack-welch-died.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from The New York Times reads<\/a>:<\/span>\u00a0\u201cMr. Welch distilled his management concepts in one-sentence nuggets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cControl your destiny, or someone else will.\u201d \u201cBe candid with everyone.\u201d \u201cBureaucrats must be ridiculed and removed.\u201d \u201cIf we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of GE, a business legend, has died. There was no corporate leader like \u201cneutron\u201d Jack. He was my friend and supporter. We made wonderful deals together. He will never be forgotten. My warmest sympathies to his wonderful wife &amp; family!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1234483443712561157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Welch, former GE CEO, has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[99,1385,587,3344],"class_list":["post-25177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-ge","tag-jack-welch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25182,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177\/revisions\/25182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}