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Review
“A gripping and deeply reported account of the devastating disintegration of one of the most iconic firms ever to exist. To all of us shocked by GE’s seemingly abrupt fall from grace, this book lays out in painful detail how such a thing could have happened.”—Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School, author of Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen
“Gryta and Mann tell a bracing tale of corporate venality, incompetence, and shortsighted deal-making. It's a parable with no heroes, but many lessons for anyone who wants to know how 21st Century corporate management, which venerates stock price above all other measures of value, has gone so disastrously awry.” —Andrew Rice, New York Magazine
"Lights Out is the definitive story of an American business powerhouse losing its way. Gryta and Mann's meticulous reporting puts us in the rooms—and on the private jets—where GE's leaders struggled over the company's fate, with billions of dollars in the balance. More than just an intimate profile of one company, this book is a captivating tale of human complexity, greed, and hubris." —Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind: Drugs. Murder. Empire. Betrayal
"This vital history of an American institution warns us of what happens when a company pursues growth for growth’s sake, and its leaders struggle to understand what they can and cannot control." —David Gura, Anchor and Correspondent, MSNBC
"Possessing all the suspense of a true-crime account, Gryta and Mann’s riveting look at GE’s previous two decades underlines the harsh facts of survival in 21st-century business." —Publishers Weekly
"Gryta and Mann expand on their Wall Street Journal reporting to create a compelling narrative of a giant’s spectacular fall in this powerful and fascinating read." —Booklist
"This revealing and accessible postmortem of GE’s downward spiral will be important reading for a wide audience, including customers, employees, former employees, and investors, as well as anyone interested in 21st-century corporate management." —Library Journal
用戶評價
##雖然寫的一般，但通用電氣的混亂狀況還是令人印象深刻。
評分##寫的比較詳細（拖遝）的一本書，在一開始做筆記，後來已經看纍瞭……其實Jeff Welch鼎盛之時就埋下瞭衰敗的種子，其興也勃焉，其亡也忽焉。
評分##這是夏天rosemary和她的團隊來我傢看電影帶過來的..今天抽空湊閤看瞭下。90%是作者根據公開資料做的案頭整理工作 10%是smoothing provision性質的填充.太多修飾性的廢話瞭...裏麵techinical error太多瞭..不過同意作者的一點是GE is an american institution..然後一路哢嚓...
評分##寫的比較詳細（拖遝）的一本書，在一開始做筆記，後來已經看纍瞭……其實Jeff Welch鼎盛之時就埋下瞭衰敗的種子，其興也勃焉，其亡也忽焉。
評分##多少人是看瞭Bezos的推薦，找來看的….
評分##雖然寫的一般，但通用電氣的混亂狀況還是令人印象深刻。
評分##雖然寫的一般，但通用電氣的混亂狀況還是令人印象深刻。
評分##GE的失敗在於激進的會計處理、押注瞭錯誤的行業（油氣、電力、航空）、過於依賴金融、缺乏行業專注、顢頇自大的領導以及追求完成指標的文化。作者似乎把責任都推給瞭伊梅爾特。但我認為韋爾奇埋下瞭失敗的種子，隻是失敗的後果由後人來承擔。比較可惜的是John Flannery，他似乎太過實誠，雖然他的戰略都是對的，但可惜失去瞭董事會的信任，成為瞭前任製造的災難的犧牲品。這本書寫到比較“乾”，雖然有一個很好的話題，但隻能給到四顆星。
評分##這是夏天rosemary和她的團隊來我傢看電影帶過來的..今天抽空湊閤看瞭下。90%是作者根據公開資料做的案頭整理工作 10%是smoothing provision性質的填充.太多修飾性的廢話瞭...裏麵techinical error太多瞭..不過同意作者的一點是GE is an american institution..然後一路哢嚓...
