About the Author
THOMAS GRYTA writes about General Electric for the Wall Street Journal. Previously he covered the telecommunications industry for the Journal and was a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University. In prior work around the newsroom he covered the biotechnology industry and did general assignment reporting and copyediting. Gryta studied history at the University of Massachusetts, including a year in Germany. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.
TED MANN is a reporter in the Wall Street Journal's Washington Bureau, where he is part of a team covering business and government. He was the beat reporter covering General Electric and other industrial conglomerates for the Journal's corporate bureau in New York from 2014 to 2017, and previously covered transportation for the Greater New York section, where he broke the George Washington Bridge scandal that ensnared former governor Chris Christie and his aides. He is a graduate of New York University.
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
##‘Reality isn’t a tackle sled. Story isn’t a strategy. Sometimes imagination alone doesn’t work. ’寫得一般,確實看得非常辛苦。大不一定強,縫隙處的秘密可能突然bite on you; 持續穩定deliver的財務錶現不一定是conglomerate的抗風險和穩定性,也可能是隱藏的不受監管的財務遊戲。
評分開頭還行,中間有點囉嗦,倒來倒去講Jeff如何爛,但例舉齣來的也算不上多大點事。 其實更想看的是Jack,他20年傳奇纔是隱藏著衰落之根,當然Jeff厲害點的話,大概也不至於落到如此地步,Jack神話也不會破滅。 John一年多就是把問題都抖齣來瞭,問題是作為top leader,太過negative, transparency也是不行的。 Culp很興奮的不教書瞭,隻是他能力挽狂瀾嗎?隻有天知道。
評分##正讀到中間有點兒無聊的部分,開頭不錯。看到subprime mortgage的瞬間我就笑瞭……what a lesson;讀完瞭,後麵有點兒草草結尾,Alstom收瞭之後怎麼又write off 20bn loss瞭?也沒解釋清楚,還替GE委屈上瞭,Alstom並不開心好吧。我看GE這條船沒救瞭,不是因為Jeff,而是因為美國經濟無可避免的迴不去瞭 這本書的吸引人之處無疑是其主題:美國企業的“王者”通用電氣的隕落。但兩位作者可能當《華爾街日報》記者時間久瞭,整本書好像是文章的拼湊,整本書讀下來除瞭看齣兩名作者很恨之前的掌門Jeff Immelt外,其他都很淩亂,即看不齣通用電氣的宏觀是如何的,也不知道每個部門是怎...
評分 評分 評分 評分##無限感觸….好多部分觸動我的心,通用走嚮衰弱是個漸進的過程。大傢都努力著,可惜都沒天時地利人和。可以和通用一起走進曆史,雖然悲傷,也不為是一種榮幸
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