JACK: Straight From The Gut
by Jack Welch and John A. Byrne
Warner
ISBN: 0446528382

After 20 years as CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch looks back on his career. In his passionate, warts-and-all memoir, he explains how he revitalized a giant corporation --- and how an undersized Irish kid from Massachusetts grew up to become America's most-admired CEO.

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Jack Welch Bio

Mr. Welch, a native of Salem, Massachusetts, received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1957 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois.

He joined GE in 1960 and was elected Vice President in 1972 and Vice Chairman in 1979. In 1981, he became the eighth Chairman and CEO in the Company's 121-year history. He retired in the fall of 2001.

Mr. Welch is a former chairman and a member of both The Business Council and the National Academy of Engineering and is a member of the Business Roundtable.

John A. Byrne Bio

John A. Byrne is a senior writer at Business Week magazine.

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