Jeff Immelt语录

今天冲到邹岭的新办公室做客。在出租车上，翻了翻随身带的红皮的笔记本，发现一些2年前的一个eBay内部会议的潦草的记录。eBay开高层会议的时候常请来一些重量级的嘉宾。那一年是GE的Jeff Immelt。记录的东西没有任何条理，也不想加我的评论，仅仅是听到的只言片语。或许对大家也是个启发。

Big vs Small

• Credibility

• Big + Fast always beat small + fast

• Love and inspire people, but GE is not for everyone

• Mistakes we still make

• Allow bureaucracy to win - too process based

• Too intenal/too American - lose love of customers

• Confuse current success with future position

• Metrics that reward the wrong behavior

• Play small Leadership

• I have stayed at GE for 25 years so that I could be in the front seat of history

• Zoom in, zoom out…

• “I don’t believe in professional management”.

• 4-5 things deep dive

• Good managers show interest…

• These is no substance of experience

• Build something that last is beautiful Innovation

• 10 years ago, everyone was trained by processes, like six-sigma. Now we are all about innovation

• People has to be the core DNA of the company

• You cannot just come to work and chop wood

• You have to drive change and develop other leaders Making deicisions and Communication

• Make decision fast, faster and faster, for small companies, and large companies!

• Decision cycle time

• How the organization can be quicker

• Clarity of community

• Drive the speed

• Decisive = clearly Yes or No

• Clarify is key

• When we go, we go

• Make a very clear call On Exit

• Someone can run the business better than us, it is time to exit

• A company that makes money from chaos.

• In a good company, you always has to prioritize very hard

• GE is all about system, that is tough to match