2024年2月9日 星期五

The dismissal of Valery Zaluzhny. Giorgia Meloni Solidifies Her Credentials in Europe. Silvio Berlusconi (~2023), Donald Trump, Jack Welch,



Giorgia Meloni


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Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Italy since October 2022, the first woman to hold this position.

Silvio Berlusconi 

How Silvio Berlusconi Changed Italy, for Better or Worse

Whether as a politician or media tycoon, the former prime minister and businessman who died Monday at 86, left an imprint, or a bruise, on just about everything he touched.

Reporting from Rome

The death of Silvio Berlusconi on Monday brought to an end one of the longest, most consequential and colorful eras in Italian politics, with both ardent admirers and die-hard critics marking a life of outsized influence as something that split contemporary Italian history into the before and after.

From his origins as a real estate and media mogul, Mr. Berlusconi, who was 86 when he died, became the most dominant personality on the theatrical Italian landscape. He revolutionized not only Italian politics, but also its sport, daily life, image of itself and popular culture — all through his privately owned television channels — leaving an imprint, or a bruise, on almost everything he touched.

“Goodbye Silvio,” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a statement about her coalition partner, calling him “one of the most influential men in Italian history.” He will receive a state funeral in Milan’s Duomo on Wednesday.



特朗普機密文件案的七大關鍵信息

MAGGIE HABERMAN, GLENN THRUSH, ALAN FEUER, BEN PROTESS

針對特朗普及其助手的起訴書曝光了一些新細節。其中顯示特朗普將成箱的重要文件放在盥洗室裡,絕密國家安全文件甚至被扔在地上。此外,特朗普還隨意與他人分享機密。



The Economist
Americans could look to Italy for a taste of things to come



2015.11 "My Way", a new authorised biography of Silvio Berlusconi, is seen from his relentlessly self-justificatory standpoint. The effect is hilarious—he cannot understand, for example, why his wife was upset when he attended a "pretty and lithe" 18-year-old lingerie model's birthday party


Silvio Berlusconi
華爾街日報》曾有文章評價貝魯斯科尼,認為他集合義大利人的最棒的優點和最壞的缺點,總結有五點:1.惹人喜愛,但容易誘惑他人;2.善於向公眾傳達易懂且安心的信息;3.個人主義;4.有貴族風範;5.長於攻擊政治對手。




At Any CostJack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupJan 12, 2011 - Business & Economics -480 pages

本書 At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit By Thomas F. O'Boyle 1998年初版,書名意思是Jack Welch 把他在中學時"不惜一切代價追求贏 (Win- At-All-Cost)心態帶入企業界。 (p.69) 它說明20世紀90年代GE的CEO,Jack Welch,他的一心追求的財務上短視績效,只是美國崇拜華爾街心態下應運而生的"假"英雄.....。
由本書的索引中的Peter Drucker和W. Edwards Deming,我們很可以知道作者如何利用這兩位管理學理論大師的基礎來寫他的史詩。

第69頁以Drucker 著名的企業三問,導入Welch先生學自Bendix公司企畫長致Fortune 的信,發展出"本公司所有的事業部都必須是業界的第一名或第二名,才可以在本公司有立足之地。"的哲學。頁373-74 頁更以Drucker 在1946年的【公司的概念】說,現代通用企車公司的開創者Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.,雖然將公司的汽車的美國市場佔有率提升到48% (約40年代末),集團之經營極客觀、有效、就事論事,不過GM是一家"沒有靈魂的公司" (參考Sloan 著的【我在通用汽車公司的日子】)。

Drucker 的另外一位企業英雄是創IBM的Thomas J. Watson Sr (他大Sloan一歲)。Sloan建立的是大而分權的企業,不過Watson 十年之後所建立的IBM,更尊重員工個人,創立Drucker夢寐以求的"全廠共同體" (plant community,如公司俱樂部等),對於要求尊守高商業道德標準等等,都是日本公司戰後學習的楷模--這是日本的友人告訴他的。(頁240-41)

本書也介紹Deming的經營管理的十四要點等,來針貶GE公司的經營---在Jack Welch的前任,60~80年代,GE的人,讓Drucker選為"專業知識工作者的代表。記W. Edwards Deming是作者當WSJ的記者時訪問Dr. Deming的。

Google Books這版本是2001版--Afterword 寫於2001年4月。上述2011年版應該是補充近35頁。由書內搜索。

這本書很難能可貴處是沒寫 Jack Welch的緋聞與離婚記。簡述故事:美國著名的商業刊物Harvard Business Review 的編輯某人去訪談 Jack Welch 董事長,兩人一見鍾情,可能還一起去珠寶店為 Jack Welch太太買結婚紀念禮物?後來 Jack Welch太太知道先生偷情,兩人就離婚。



2011 前幾天在CNN看 Jack Welch 的訪問
才知道有人認為他是20世紀最了不起的經理---才怪
約10多年前 哈佛商業評論HBR的一位編輯訪問他
結果是兩人煞到 開始約會 (此 Jack 還將新書 送其妻)
一年後女有高升 最後辦公室革命 群起而攻之
他們戀情公開後結婚......

之後包裝再寫書 寫專欄 儼然是位管理大師......

現在有管理學院訓練MBA....

此君是美式管理的包裝大王......別相信這種人


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