How Just One Man Destroyed America's Greatest Industrial Empire

Read the first chapter of How Britain Stopped Making Things free: https://mettlehistory.co.uk ___________________________________________ This is what America's greatest industrial empire once sounded like. For more than a century, General Electric built the things that built the modern age — the turbines that lit the cities, the superchargers that carried America's bombers to war, the machines humming in a million American homes. At its peak, it even became the most valuable company in the world. But fast-forward to today, and all of that is gone. The name General Electric still survives. But what it stood for doesn't. What killed it wasn't a market crash, or a rival from overseas, or a war. It was one man. At his peak, he was called the greatest manager who had ever lived — and he would go on to inspire an entire generation of American CEOs. If you want to understand how corporate greed killed industrial America, you first have to understand his story. The story of how America's most iconic CEO, Jack Welch, destroyed General Electric.