Why stop there - the man was such poison, that such top-down layoff should include any private chefs, baristas or garbage guys that dealt with him.

That's a bit too much. Wouldn't it be better to each year rank all the executives by their proximity to Jack Welch, and then fire the worst 10%?

I see what you did there.

Will there be a Six Degrees to Jack Welch site?

Clearly you're going for some snark, but some form of purge would be a good signal that the company isn't putting up with bullshit ideology.

Who’s going to purge them? They’re the idiot execs in charge everywhere now! Jack Welch was a good name in business management circles, and still is to this day, even though his theories and work have not withstood the test of time to regular folks like us.

He's an order barker. He won't move the needle one point on that culture. All GE people understand is hierarchy.