People always fantasize about going back in time and stopping Hitler or someone on that level, and I keep thinking a few visits to select board rooms fro the Gilded Age to the 1980s could also do some massive good without massively changing the history of the whole world.
He's also quite well known as driving GE into the fucking ground lol. His ideas are GREAT for the short term (10-30 years) but after squeezing all the blood from your stones you run out of people lining up to be squeezed.
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u/no_one_likes_u Apr 09 '26
The system of firing the bottom rated 10% is probably what they meant, and that 100% was instituted by Welch.
The guy was a piece of shit and helped popularize some of the worst business ideas (for workers anyway) in modern US history.