When the executives return to work on Friday morning, a videotape of Welch's talk is already on their desks along with a guide for how to use it with their own teams. Within one week, more than 750 videos in eight different languages, including Mandarin and Hungarian, are dispatched to GE locations around the world. Welch's words will be absorbed and reinforced by as many as 150000 employees by month's end.
Welch had his instructions to cut costs dispatched to every GE location and required that they be immediately implemented.
韦尔奇让人把他要求削减成本的指令发放到通用电气在世界各地的不同部门,并要求立即贯彻实施。