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Part Two: Jack Welch Is Why You Got Laid Off

Behind the Bastards

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Jack Donigy: A Corporate Mastermind

Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric. He hired Roger Ailes to run CNBC, but then altered his non-compete clause so that he could take a job with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News. The network went on to become one of the most popular cable news channels in history. "We have Jack to partially thank for Fox," says Peter Travers.

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