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And that is why the “house that Jack (Welch) built” came tumbling down.

Decisions were made on spreadsheets instead of between ears - among other things, they did stack ranking of employees and they seemed to take pride in being oh-so-tough and hard-nosed. It worked great until it didn’t.




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