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Part Two: Jack Welch Is Why You Got Laid Off

Behind the Bastards

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Jack's Second Divorce to Jane Welch

Jack McLean was being interviewed for this article in the wake of Jack's second divorce to Jane Welch. The woman that he left Carolyn for, which occurred in 2002 after she found out that he had been cheating on her with the editor of the Harvard Business Review. He ordered his staff to avoid using the word loyal in press releases. And he ordered his underlings to stoke their workers with constant fear that there might lose their jobs.

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