TY - BOOK AU - Comstock,Beth AU - Raz,Tahl TI - Imagine it forward: courage, creativity, and the power of change SN - 9780451498298 AV - HD58.8 .C6486 2018 U1 - 658.4/06 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Currency KW - Organizational change KW - Decision making KW - Management KW - Success in business N1 - Includes index N2 - "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"-- ER -