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January 12, 2006
MorphWorld: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author Taylor Branch into 'Neutron' Jack Welch
The penny dropped yesterday when, on the front page of today's USA Today Life section, I espied the photo above of Branch, which accompanied a story about "At Canaan's Edge," the just–published final book in his monumental trilogy (2,849 pages total) about the U.S. civil rights movement.
Branch (below)
is 58 while Welch is all of 70.
I guess those golden parachutes really do help cushion the blows.
Jack Welch (below)
needs no introduction: somehow he's avoided becoming a laughingstock even though his own messy personal life in recent years directly contradicts what he professes (for $100,000 and up for a 45–minute talk) to be "The G.E. Way" of doing things.
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I don't know. He was known as Neutron Jack because of his propensity for restructuring and layoffs - seems like that's what happened at Du Casa Welch too. The GE Way, after all. (The neutron name was after the nuclear bomb that vaporizes people but leaves buildings standing.)
He advocates getting rid of your least productive (the bottom 10% of your workforce) all the time - obviously he saw the former Mrs. Welch in that category. ;)
Posted by: Shawn Lea | Jan 12, 2006 3:52:44 PM
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