This book helps you implement GE's legendary Work-Out technique for solving organizational problems fast...and get fast, GE-like results in your organization.

Table of Contents

I. The Work-Out Way: Executive Overview; Chapter 1: The Essence of Work-Out; Chapter 2: The GE Story; Chapter 3: Why Work-Out Works; Chapter 4: Can Work-Out Work without Welch? Chapter 5: Is Your Organization Ready? II. Launching and Leading Work-Out; Chapter 6: The Roadmap; Chapter 7: Designing a Work-Out; Chapter 8: Running a Work-Out; Chapter 9: Following up; Chapter 10: Variations on a Theme; III. Adapting and Sustaining Work-Out; Chapter 11: Connecting Work-Out to Strategy; Chapter 12: Building Internal Capacity; Chapter 13: Developing Work-Out Leaders; Chapter 14: Changing Culture Through Work-Out; Chapter 15: The Never-Ending Cycle of Change; Appendices: 1. Leaders Support Kit; 2. Tools and Templates; 3. Cases

About the Author

Dave Ulrich is a professor of business administration at the University of Michigan School of Business and the author of the best-selling Human Resource Champions, Results-Based Leadership, and The HR Scorecard. Steve Kerr is Chief Learning Officer and a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs. He was previously Vice President-Leadership Development and Chief Learning Officer for General Electric, with responsibility for GE's renowned Leadership Development Center at Crotonville. Ron Ashkenas is the managing partner of management consulting firm Robert H. Schaffer & Associates, and senior author (with Ulrich, Kerr, and Todd Jick) of two previous books about GE.