We Need To Stop Cheerleading Change
6 min readAug 13, 2022
Today, everyone seems to want to associate themselves with change. Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric’s former CEO, loved to call his firm a 124 year-old startup. Its value fell by 30% under his tenure and would later collapse. Bill Gates pointed out that the culprit wasn’t innovation or disruption, but basic mismanagement.
It seems that, these days, Immelt’s leadership is closer to the rule than the…