Jack Welch, visionary

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 10 21:29:18 PDT 2001


Carl Remick wrote:


>Jack Welch
>former chairman and chief executive of General Electric
>
>In times of upheaval and market changes such as now there are
>opportunities: acquisitions are cheaper. This is not callous, no-one
>cried like I did. I don't mean to be cruel or insensitive but each
>one of us has got to find what the opportunities and changes brought
>about by this transition are. This is about going forward, this is
>about suffering the pain, we all cried, we all felt more than ever
>in our lives about the poor souls who died for no reason other than
>they went to work. There was this story about people from executive
>jets handing out brochures to golfers encouraging them to switch
>from scheduled to executive jets, and the New York Times said how
>terrible that was on the back of a tragedy. But there wasn't a
>golfer there or executive of these companies who didn't feel those
>people's pain. but there's a changed environment and they have an
>opportunity to work on.

Capitalism makes some real specimens, doesn't it?

Doug



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