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POWER FAILURE: What Happened to GE? (with Malcolm Gladwell & William Cohan)

The Next Big Idea

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Welch's Life and Times

In many ways, Welch could not have picked a successor more different from himself. So Welch is short, scrappy, colorful, maverick, North of Boston with the accent of the wazoo. Emmelt is a patrician and not really a patricians, but you look at him and you think he's, you know, frat boy from football, Dartmouth, looks really good in a suit.

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