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When he became CEO, he inherited a series of obligatory corporate events that he has since transformed into meaningful levers of leadership. These get-togethers — from the meeting in early January with GE's top 500 executives in Boca Raton, Fla., to the monthly sessions in Croton-on-Hudson — allow him to set and abruptly change the corporation's agenda, to challenge and test the strategies and the people that populate each of GE's dozen divisions, and to make his formidable presence and opinions known to all.

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Welch transformed the corporation’s obligatory corporate events into meaningful levers of leadership.

韦尔奇把不得不举行的公司活动转变成帮助实现某一目的的领导手段。