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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by andrewinardeer on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:27PM (#33648594)
Jack Welch at General Electric. Granted it wasn't a tech company though.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by jonstewart on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:32PM (#33649141)
He was fawned over at the time, but Welch is finally being assigned his share of blame for gutting GE.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by piva00 on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:44AM (#33652902)
GE became profitable, it was just not GE anymore but some monstrosity that became a finance firm instead of an engineering one.

You can see some similarity to Boeing after having MD's management taking over, accounting-wise it's working, engineering-wise it's fallen deep into a pit of issues.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by CPLX on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:34PM (#33649161)
He took one of the most valuable and enduring companies in American history and destroyed it completely. It no longer exists.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by mikeyouse on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:59PM (#33649423)
So you're saying it's an apt comparison? Ha.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by stubybubs on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:48PM (#33649928)
Yes, but he did it slowly, and at great profit to himself. Totally different than Musk!
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