杰克·专尔奇在通用电气任CEO时是全世界薪水最高的首席执行官，被誉为全球第一CEO。从他1981年入主通用电气起，20年里，韦尔奇使通用电气的市值达到了4500亿美元，增长30多倍，排名从世界第十位提升到第二位。他所推行的“六西格玛”标准、全球化和电子商务，几乎重新定义了现代企业。同时，这位锐意改革的管理奇才还开创了一种独特的哲学和操作系统，该系统依靠一种扁平的、“无边界”的管理模式，一种对人的热情关注以及一种非正式的、平等交流的风格，帮助庞大多元的商业帝国摆脱成熟企业的痼疾——金字塔式的官僚体制，走上灵活主动、不拘一格的道路。在取得成功的同时，他本人也成为世界上最令人仰慕的商界领袖，CEO们争相效仿的偶像人物。
这本自传是韦尔奇退休前的最后一个大动作，他在书中推心置腹、侃侃而谈，将自己的成长岁月、成功经历及经营理念和盘托出。书的稿酬高达700万美元，被全球翘首以待的经理人奉为“CEO的圣经”。

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“Scale” has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn’t just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It’s about whether an idea that takes hold in a small group can do the same in a much larger one—whether you’re growing a small business, rolling out a diversity and inclusion program, or delivering billions of doses of a vaccine.
Translating an idea into widespread impact, says University of Chicago economist John A. List, depends on one thing only: whether it can achieve “high voltage”—the ability to be replicated at scale.
In The Voltage Effect, List explains that scalable ideas share a common set of attributes, while any number of attributes can doom an unscalable idea. Drawing on his original research, as well as fascinating examples from the realms of business, policymaking, education, and public health, he identifies five measurable vital signs that a scalable idea must possess, and offers proven strategies for avoiding voltage drops and engineering voltage gains. You’ll learn:
• How celebrity chef Jamie Oliver expanded his restaurant empire by focusing on scalable “ingredients” (until it collapsed because talent doesn’t scale)
• Why the failure to detect false positives early on caused the Reagan-era drug-prevention program to backfire at scale
• How governments could deliver more services to more citizens if they focused on the last dollar spent
• How one education center leveraged positive spillovers to narrow the achievement gap across the entire community
• Why the right set of incentives, applied at scale, can boost voter turnout, increase clean energy use, encourage patients to consistently take their prescribed medication, and more.
By understanding the science of scaling, we can drive change in our schools, workplaces, communities, and society at large. Because a better world can only be built at scale.