出版社: Houghton Mifflin Harcour
副标题: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric
出版年: 2020-7-21
页数: 368
定价: USD21.47
装帧: 精装
ISBN: 9780358250418
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 Busines...
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 · · · · · ·
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...
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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美国最具代表性的公司,为何突然跌落悬崖?
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像通用电气这样庞大而辉煌的公司怎么会没落呢? 这个问题我已经思考了好几年。《熄灯》终于给出了我一直在寻找的答案。作者笔法犀利地讲述了通用电气领导层的错误和失策。如果你身处某个领导岗位——无论是在公司、非营利组织还是其他地方——你都可以从中学到很多。 ——比尔·... (展开)【读书半杯茶】之106 《灯灭》:骄傲、幻想和通用电气的衰落
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GE 美国通用电气公司曾经是美国市值最大的上市公司。一直到今天,世界上三分之一的电来自通用电气生产的发电机。杰克•威尔赤(Jack Welch)在CEO任上时被奉为美国企业管理之经典,大红大紫。这个公司的管理人员坚信,自己的文化、管理方式放之四海而皆准,通用电气就是与众不... (展开)从天下第一CEO韦尔奇到公司一分为三的唏嘘结果
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0 有用 CYT 2023-11-22 23:31:01 上海
稍微有点墨迹,但是我觉得结尾的总结十分中肯,GE enbodies the very ideal of capitalist meritocracy
0 有用 YUE 2021-07-28 16:15:56
读过的感觉生词最多的一本
5 有用 楚江微 2020-08-20 20:47:14
开头还行,中间有点啰嗦,倒来倒去讲Jeff如何烂,但例举出来的也算不上多大点事。 其实更想看的是Jack,他20年传奇才是隐藏着衰落之根,当然Jeff厉害点的话,大概也不至于落到如此地步,Jack神话也不会破灭。 John一年多就是把问题都抖出来了,问题是作为top leader,太过negative, transparency也是不行的。 Culp很兴奋的不教书了,只是他能力挽狂澜吗?只有天知道... 开头还行,中间有点啰嗦,倒来倒去讲Jeff如何烂,但例举出来的也算不上多大点事。 其实更想看的是Jack,他20年传奇才是隐藏着衰落之根,当然Jeff厉害点的话,大概也不至于落到如此地步,Jack神话也不会破灭。 John一年多就是把问题都抖出来了,问题是作为top leader,太过negative, transparency也是不行的。 Culp很兴奋的不教书了,只是他能力挽狂澜吗?只有天知道。 (展开)
4 有用 GW_Parables 2020-10-18 22:38:35
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...
0 有用 JAN!Ce B 2021-11-28 18:13:17
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
0 有用 CYT 2023-11-22 23:31:01 上海
稍微有点墨迹,但是我觉得结尾的总结十分中肯,GE enbodies the very ideal of capitalist meritocracy
1 有用 老魁 2023-07-18 22:47:54 广东
生动地写出了庞大的GE在力不从心的Immelt治下苦苦挣扎十六年,最终因为各种糟糕运气和内部原因交织在一起江河日下的故事。Immelt终其任期都在和他根本不太搞得懂的GE Capital作斗争,到最后因为核心的Power业务的积重难返而彻底失去所有人的信心。很多问题的根源在Welch时代就埋下了种子,但最后的爆发又都落到了倒霉的Jeff头上。归根到底,这是一个失败的企业治理的案例,董事会事实上失去... 生动地写出了庞大的GE在力不从心的Immelt治下苦苦挣扎十六年,最终因为各种糟糕运气和内部原因交织在一起江河日下的故事。Immelt终其任期都在和他根本不太搞得懂的GE Capital作斗争,到最后因为核心的Power业务的积重难返而彻底失去所有人的信心。很多问题的根源在Welch时代就埋下了种子,但最后的爆发又都落到了倒霉的Jeff头上。归根到底,这是一个失败的企业治理的案例,董事会事实上失去了监督指导CEO的作用,几乎变成了橡皮图章。但深一层看,像GE如此庞大的多元化跨国公司,其业务之复杂多样,包含了金融、2B业务、2C业务甚至还有媒体,好像很难找到一个全能CEO和背景超级丰富的董事会能够管理好。这也是为什么这种多元化集团在20世纪末21世纪初急剧减少的原因。 (展开)
0 有用 THE OBSERVER 2022-06-25 01:05:11
多少人是看了Bezos的推荐,找来看的….
0 有用 yusen 2022-06-12 00:47:05
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。
0 有用 柘予 2022-01-04 19:08:31
‘Reality isn’t a tackle sled. Story isn’t a strategy. Sometimes imagination alone doesn’t work. ’写得一般,确实看得非常辛苦。大不一定强,缝隙处的秘密可能突然bite on you; 持续稳定deliver的财务表现不一定是conglomerate的抗风险和稳定性,也可能是隐藏的不受监管的财务游戏。