I spend a couple of years working at GE, so it goes without saying that I am not a fan of the recently dead “Neutron Jack”^* Welch, who just died at age 84.

I literally refuse to buy their light bulbs to this day.

In 1999, Fortune called him the manager of the decade.

His basic business strategy, financialize a manufacturing company for a quick bump in profits, along with making the ordinary people who actually do the work miserable, has not aged well.

^*He was called “Neutron Jack” because the people were gone, but the buildings remain standing.