Lights Out

书名：Lights OutPride,Delusion,andtheFallofGeneralElectric
作者：ThomasGryta/TedMann
译者：
ISBN：9780358250418
出版社：HoughtonMifflinHarcour
出版时间：2020-7-21
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：368
豆瓣评分： 7.3

书籍简介：

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 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 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.

书友短评：

@ yusen GE的失败在于激进的会计处理、押注了错误的行业（油气、电力、航空）、过于依赖金融、缺乏行业专注、颟顸自大的领导以及追求完成指标的文化。作者似乎把责任都推给了伊梅尔特。但我认为韦尔奇埋下了失败的种子，只是失败的后果由后人来承担。比较可惜的是John Flannery，他似乎太过实诚，虽然他的战略都是对的，但可惜失去了董事会的信任，成为了前任制造的灾难的牺牲品。这本书写到比较“干”，虽然有一个很好的话题，但只能给到四颗星。 @ 老魁 多少人是看了Bezos的推荐，找来看的…. @ yusen 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。 @ 柘予 ‘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。 @ Sissy 诗诗 传统工业巨头陨落。一个传奇的公司，从无所不在变成蝼蚁。从一个传奇CEO带领金融造假收入，变成二任Ceo继续造假而不专注自家业务，到最后千穿百孔。但这也是40年的累积。 看来这类大型公司很禁得起遭。

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