Speechwriter for Jack Welch
Bill Lane was an speechwriter, a confidant, and an advisor to one of the most enigmatic and powerful CEOs in history. Jack Welch ran General Electric with an iron will and an iron fist. His prolific leadership has been classified as eccentric and ingenious, and as one of his closest advisors, Lane helped craft his message. He shares stories and business strategies in his speeches and in his new book, Jacked Up: How Jack Welch Talked GE into Becoming the World's Greatest Company.
The power, the passion, the profanity. Lane reveals how Welch's manic attention to communications was a cornerstone of great leadership and the key to GE's meteoric rise. Cross The Art of War with The Devil Wears Prada, and you might have an idea of how Jack Welch ran his powerhouse company. Raucous, revealing, and irreverent, Lane's portrait of Welch, from working alongside him, provides priceless anecdotes and applicable lessons on how to run the best business possible. As Welch's speechwriter of 20 years, Lane, takes audiences backstage and shows how ferociously the CEO prepared for presentations, for his business, and for the future.
Taming and tailoring a volcanic business. Whether he faced angry congressmen, critical shareholders, or hostile union members, Welch knew how to win hearts and minds-and then kick them up a notch. Bill Lane picked up on the ability to lead through communication and an intolerance of others who cannot communicate clearly. As in politics, communication requires the talent of strong leadership. Lane covers Welch's controversial firing of the bottom 10 percent of managers to his staggering increase of GE's capitalization to $400 billion. He delivers an up-close, fly-on-the-wall view of Welch and GE's riskiest moves.
Lane also provides snippets and ideas from some of Welch's most outstanding speeches (which he helped craft), outspoken opinions, outrageous philosophies, and outside-the-box principles that teach and inspire, shock and provoke, all at once. Like Welch himself, Lane's message is bold, brilliant, and a shot in the arm for the business world, and for audiences looking for an invigorating, caffeinated business boost.
With his book and through his locomotive-speed speeches, Bill Lane gives the ultimate insider's look at the genius behind GE, and how he provided it a voice.
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You don't know Jack, but Bill Lane does.Lane delivers transformational presentations on how companies, organizations, and individuals can move from the PowerPoint purgatory of droning reports and self-absorbed chart reading to an exciting realm of candor, sharing, and learning, moving from "Rapid-Eye-Movement" in bored audiences to rapid movement of organizations and initiatives.
How Jack Welch-with Lane's help-used communications to change GE from a plodding "Supertanker" to an agile $400 billion "cigarette boat."
Simple, applicable insights into how to ban BS from the entire spectrum of organizational communications, from company or component meetings and speeches, to important documents including the mostly soporific annual reports that decimate forests and cure insomnia.
Lane delivers a rousing, passionate, and often-hilarious presentation punctuated with relevant insights from Jack Welch, arguably the greatest CEO in history, and one of history's most effective business communicators.
Bill Lane's presentation, customized for the needs of your group, spans what he learned in combat as a green beret officer in Vietnam; to seven years at the Pentagon running congressional hearings and presenting the Army's programs to senators and congressmen; to the decades he wrote for Welch and helped him bring about the communications revolution at GE.
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