Jeffrey Imalt forced a security guard to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with him. Ed Galenek never even made it to the top because he had to turn back. "I just couldn't believe that Jeff had forced this," says former GE employee who was in charge at the time. 'It's really unfair to kill me, just to have a court gesture go up a mountain'
Before the mega-cap tech giants, there was General Electric.
William D. Cohan is a Founding Partner of Puck and the author of “Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.” Cohan joined Ricky Mulvey to discuss:
- Jack Welch, and the religion of earnings consistency. - The mythology behind General Electric’s birth. -General Electric’s “time of death”. - Why Cohan believes a combination between Warner Brothers Discovery and NBCUniversal is “inevitable.”
Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: William D. Cohan Engineer: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl, Tim Sparks, Annie Franks
Companies discussed: GE, DIS, WBD, CMCSA
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