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