Jack Welch and the Ten Commitments of Leadership: A True Human Resource Leader

Jack Welch and the Ten Commitments of Leadership: A True Human Resource Leader
One of the greatest and most effective Human Resource and Business leaders of all time was Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric. Over his 20 years as CEO, he has established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His initiatives of Six Sigma, globalization, and e-business have defined the modern corporation. He relied on being boundaryless and sharing ideas with all workers, he had an intense focus on people, and he had passion and integrity for GE. The Ten Commitments of Leadership, laid out by Kouzes and Poszner in the book, “The Leadership Challenge”, serve as a guide on how leaders get extraordinary things done in an organization. The strengths and style of such a remarkable leader like Jack Welch can be compared to these commitments with great accuracy, as he has followed them throughout his career and his dealing with people on a day to day basis. By looking at these Ten C...