Management's Global Agenda for the 1990s, According to GE's Jack Welch
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The pace of change in the nineties will make the eighties look more like a picnic-a
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park. Competition will be relentless. The bar of excellence in everything we do it will be raised every day. The pace of change will be felt in several areas. Globalization is now no longer an
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objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly
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blurred and even irrelevant. Corporate alliances, whether joint ventures or acquisitions, will increasingly be driven out by competitive pressures and strategies rather than finical structuring.
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Technological innovation and the translation of that innovation into marketplace advantage will be accelerating ever faster. And in the coming decade year, we're going to see increasing demands
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for sensitivity to the environment. Only a total number commitment of everyone in the company can provide the level of responsibility that will be acceptable to governments, employees, and customers.
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Simply doing more of what had worked in the eighties—the restructuring, the delayering, the mechanical, top-down measures that we took—will be too incremental. More than that, it will be too
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slow. The winners of in the nineties will be those who can develop a culture that allows them to
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move faster, communicate with more clearly, and involve everyone in a focusing effort to serve
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ever more demanding customers. To move toward that winning culture we've got to create
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what we call a "boundary less" company. Then we no longer have the time to climb over barriers between
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functions like engineering and marketing, or between people-hourly, salaried, management, and something the like.