Example of company
General Electric :
- Jack Welch (1981-2001)
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The main idea was to fire “poor” workers
- Overall profit over 2800% from 1980 to 2001
(Why GE had to kill annual performance reviews after more than three decades (Quartz, 2015))
- Increase in revenue from 70$ bill in 1995 to 130$ bill in 2000
How to fire people in the right way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10gFLspWZk
“Some think it’s cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10% of our people. It isn’t” (Jack Welch, “Jack: Straight From the Gut”, 2001)
Figure 4: John F.Welch, Jr (GE, n.d.)