Power Failure
Thank you for this recommendation. You might be also also be interested in Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D. Cohan. While Welch certainly is the main figure, this book also addresses GE pre and post Welch. I thought it was a really good corporate biography. BRThe Man who Broke Capitalism by David Gelles, a biography of Jack Welch. I joined a GE sub just after he retired but saw remnants of his style. He'd changed a company previously know as "Generous Electric" to one that followed the thinking of Milton Freidman- increase shareholder value, no matter how you do it and no matter what the cost.
I'm happy to say that I see this changing in corporate America. Some of the efforts at ESG strike me as feel-good or shell games and a company with a wonderfully diverse board of directors may outsource its manufacturing to a country with abysmal human rights violations- but it beats Welch's approach.