The Real-Life MBA

Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career

By: Jack Welch, Suzy Welch

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

You can talk about theories, concepts, and ideologies all you want, but when it gets right down to it, winning in business is all about mastering the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break, real-life dilemmas that define the new economy, the old economy, and everything in between. My boss is driving me nuts. I’m stuck in career purgatory. My team has lost its mojo. IT is holding us hostage. Our strategy is outdated the day we make it. We don’t know what our Chinese partners are talking about. We’re just not growing. This is the real stuff of work today. In the decade since their blockbuster international best-seller Winning was published, Jack and Suzy Welch have dug deeper into business than ever in their careers, traveling the world consulting to businesses of every size and in every industry, working closely with entrepreneurs from Mumbai to Silicon Valley, starting their own company, and owning and managing more than 40 companies through private equity. Coupled with Jack’s 20 years of iconic leadership at GE and Suzy’s tenure as editor of the Harvard Business Review, their new database of knowledge will infuse The Real-Life MBA with fresh, relevant stories and equally powerful solutions.

Selling yourself the welch way

Overall the book is a promotion of today's keep up with the trends tome with several seeming product specific comments (dare I say commercials) in the first half of the book. It would make ok copy for distribution at one of their speaking engagements.

Practical, straight forward advice.

Practical, straight forward advice. Easy to listen to and I would highly recommend. Good stuff.

Excellent book for those who want to grow and grow in business!

This is an excellent audiobook that is well-rounded about a lot of the intricacies of been business. Jack Welch and His wife did an excellent job explaining to Business professionals many of their lifelong experiences about how to handle motivation, growth, international expansion, human resources, hiring and firing, career movements, getting let go, and even retiring and starting all over again. This has been the most complete MBA book I have ever read and listen to. It was a great experience.

Some great tidbits

There are some great tidbits of advice and reinforcement of already existing advice. But for the most part a nice review of great life and business tips.

Great book for the Business professionals

This book helps you as a under grad to understand the perspective of the Company and your management. Along the way you will be given advice that helps you understand the world of business. Also get a better perspective with build your own team for your business help solidify the views of a company and help you understand how the business world works.