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#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis

2021/7/27
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Jeff Immelt: 本次访谈中，Jeff Immelt 回顾了他 20 年的 GE CEO 职业生涯，以及他如何带领公司度过 911 事件、安然事件和 2008 年金融危机等三次重大危机。他分享了在这些事件中吸取的经验教训，包括如何应对恐惧、保持灵活的视角、收集信息、做出决策、处理激进投资者、应对复杂性、平衡短期和长期目标以及与工会的关系等。他还谈到了接替杰克·韦尔奇后的挑战，以及如何带领公司进行转型。他强调了在危机中保持冷静、有效沟通、识别值得信赖的团队成员以及关注最重要的风险因素的重要性。他还分享了一些个人习惯，例如坚持锻炼、保持积极的工作状态以及与其他领导者交流学习等，这些习惯帮助他度过了艰难时期。 Shane Parrish: Shane Parrish 作为访谈主持人，引导 Jeff Immelt 分享了他领导 GE 的经验和教训，并就危机管理、决策、团队建设、公司文化等方面提出了许多问题。他引导 Jeff Immelt 深入探讨了其在 GE 的职业生涯，包括接替杰克·韦尔奇的挑战、应对三次重大危机的策略、以及如何平衡短期和长期目标等。他提出的问题促使 Jeff Immelt 分享了更多细节，并对一些关键问题进行了更深入的思考。

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Jeff Immelt discusses the challenges he faced during the financial crisis, the difficulty of following a successful leader, and the need for persistence in leading a large company through multiple crises.

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Former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt looks back on his two decades with the company and the strategies he used to lead during three separate crises. In this episode, Immelt discusses what happened during those events and why, what it was like to take over for GM icon Jack Welch, getting the information you need to make decisions, activist investors, fighting complexity, the mismatched timelines between CEOs and shareholders, unions, and so much more.

Immelt is currently a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates and a lecturer in management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He served as the Chairman and CEO of GE from 2001-17, and is the author of the 2021 memoir Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company.

 

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