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Article: Life without GE's Jack Welch will be like moon without Earth.(The Providence Journal)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- September 26, 2000
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Most Americans are preparing themselves for a new administration, but I am not among them. For me, the transition that matters is not from Bill Clinton to Al Gore or George W. Bush; it is from Jack Welch to who-knows-what.
Welch, of course, has been chairman of General Electric for the past 20 years, and as business-section readers have known for the past few months, he retires from his post at the end of the year. This is not going to be easy: Life without Jack Welch at GE will be like the moon without the Earth. Welch himself has said that running General Electric is the best job in the world, and everyone agrees that GE is "the most valuable company on the ...