Review and Analysis of Jack Welch's Leadership Style and Impact

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Jack welch review and analysis of the individual’s accomplishments, leadership style and
philosophy, leadership impact, situational factors, and career influences
Jack Welch is well celebrated legendary CEO. Jack welch was a chairman and a CEO of
general electronic helm. Jack Welch accumulated large sums of revenues as profits increased
from $1.5 billion to 15 billion dollars. Also, Jack Welch’s leadership capitalized on ballooning
up to 30 times dollars the initial amount of $1.5. By his good management he decided to launch
an online business school which he named Jack Welch Management Institute (Verma 561).
Opening of this institution it was mainly to support and help people be leaders all the time hence
bringing some career influence in the society.
Jack Welch used a participative and democratic leadership style that emphasized focus on
reality. Jack was obsessed with reality and his approach to leadership emphasized on realistic
business plans that would lead the company to the next level. According to Jack Welch, good
leaders are heroes, and position themselves as role model so that the subordinates follow his
attributes and approaches to boosting company performance. The followership leadership style
motivates employees to increase their performance and productivity to higher scales than no-one
could manage it alone. Leaders are needed to change organizations and for better yields in the
organizations. In every business environment, a good leadership is an assured competitive

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advantage that the company has. In most cases good leadership has management scholars hence
they attribute to successful leadership.
Situational factors are business influences that do not occur within the individual or the
business but they always come from somewhere else. Situational factors are also external factors.
These factors include environment, work or school and the people who are always around you.
He had Jack Welch some situational factors which include leaders are supposed to relentlessly
team upgrade, make people see vision live and also breath, leaders to be courageous over gut
calls and making unpopular decisions (Cowgill 231). People tend to have dispositional factors
and they cite them over people as the factor for success. The examples include, ‘I worked harder
for that grade’, ‘I passes the exam because I am smart’ while people also blame failure on the
same situational factor. Examples are, the test was not fair on me or the teacher doers not like at
all.
The Jack Welch leadership had so many impacts on people as they taught themselves on
ways to be leaders. These impacts include that all leaders are supposed to be generous and
celebrate success of people around them. This will give people recognition if they need it.
Leadership is appreciating sincerely and been happy when others succeed. Secondly leaders
disagree to make it right. This is because most of developing leaders are surrounded by people
who agree with everything are told and thus jack said, ‘don’t get paid so as agree on everything’.
Jack as a leader, he wanted members of his team to have courage so as to able to defeat those
who feel they have high authority (Katzenbach and Smith 85). And lastly the importance of
this leadership profiles that radiate energy as the organization feeds all the energy is off. Being in
a front line leader or being a CEO, nothing required in the middle to give people you serve some