Winning - what a great book

So this long July 1st weekend I read the book called Winning by Jack Welch. I am a big skeptic when it comes to business books. Most of them are hard to read and when you are done with the book it is hard to count of your ten fingers what you learnt and what you can implement in your day to day work life.

Well not this one. It was an easy read and is full of ideas and processes you can implement. Some of the things talked in Winning strike you right between your eyes and you can immediately turn around and say, yes I saw that happening, yeah I am guilty of that and I wish I could undo this. None of us is perfect. We are human beings who make mistakes but we are also human beings who can strive for something better and can learn and do better.

I like the 4-E's and 1-P (Positive Energy, Energetic, Edge, Execution and Passion). Candor is a powerful statement by itself and we all crave for more of it and at the same time we are all sometimes guilty of not doing it ourselves. The 20-70-10 rule described in differentiation is not easy to implement and there are more reasons someone can list not to do it then to do it. But on closer look it does make sense.

I wish we would see more of what is described in voice and dignity. We all can tell the story where we wish we would have been given the opportunity to make our opinions heard and our believes being respected. Having a mission statement and value statement which is concise and we can believe and act upon - isn't that we all wish for? And there so much more which can be said about this book. I can only say one thing - go and buy it, go and read it and then go and implement some of it. Your boss and your employees will thank you for it!