Jack Welch was the former CEO and Chairman of GE ... Welch threatened to leave the company in his early years of employment on several occasions due to bureaucratic inefficiency.

During the preceding 20 years, Welch turned GE from a focused ... Welch inherited when he became CEO back in 1981. Early criticisms of Jack Welch were often met with the cliché, It’s hard ...

Bartlett, Christopher A. "GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 300-019, August 1999. (Revised June 2000.) ...