Comstock, Beth,

Imagine it forward : courage, creativity, and the power of change / Courage, creativity, and the power of change Beth Comstock ; with Tahl Raz. - First edition. - xxv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index.

"In [this book], Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair of GE, describes her twenty-five year efforts to be an instigator of change at every level of business. When she first moved from NBC to parent company GE in 1998, she was ignored as a woman in a man's world, treated as an outsider because she didn't have a business background, and ignored as a mere PR person. But CEO Jeff Immelt realized even then that the industrial giant, like so many businesses, had to change fast in order to stay relevant in a world where Google and later Facebook and an explosion of internet companies were transforming how goods and services were marketed, made, and sold. In a deeply personal journey filled with practical takeaways from two plus decades of initiating change at the top levels of corporate America -- from the Ecomagination initiative that transformed the way GE worked with their customers, to the company's famed FastWorks methodology designed to bring new products more quickly to market-- Comstock lays out the challenges, opportunities, tools and practices needed to embrace change, whatever industry you are in, and make it part of every management decision"--

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2018001839


Organizational change.
Decision making.
Management.
Success in business.

HD58.8 / .C6486 2018

658.4/06