Jack Welch, who led General Electric through two decades of extraordinary corporate prosperity and became the most influential business manger in his generation, died at 84 on Sunday.
杰克·韦尔奇周日去世，享年84岁。他曾带领美国通用电气走过辉煌二十载，并成为那一代人中最具影响力的企业管理者。
Combative and blunt, Mr. Welche became the chief executive of General Electric in 1981. The company's revenue jumped nearly five fold, to 130 billion, during Mr. Welch's tenure, while the value of its shares on the stock market soared from 14 billion to more than 410 billion.
韦尔奇于1981年成为通用电气首席执行官，他斗志昂扬、性格直率。在其任职期间，公司收入增长了近五倍，达到1300亿美元，而公司股票市值也从140亿美元飙升至4100多亿美元。
The Welch years at GE. Combined strategic insights and managerial innovations. Mr. Welch early on recognized the rise of Asia, then led by Japan, as a manufacturing powerhouse, and he shed G.E. businesses that the deemed vulnerable, moving into new ones.
在掌舵通用电气的这些年岁里，韦尔奇在其战略洞见中融入了管理创新。他很早就意识到当时由日本牵头的亚洲正崛起为制造业巨擘，于是他剥离通用电气中那些他认为容易受到冲击的业务，转而开拓新的业务。
He attached democracy and made sweeping payroll cuts, creating a more entrepreneurial, if more Darwinian, corporate culture. And he made G.E. far more dependent on finance, as banking and investment grew as a share of the American economy.
他抨击官僚主义，并进行大规模的裁员，开创了一种更富有创业精神（或更达尔文主义式）的企业文化；随着银行和投资在美国经济中所占份额的增长，他大幅扩展了通用电气在金融领域的业务。
Mr. Welch distilled his management concepts into once-sentence nuggets. "Bureaucrats must be ridiculed and removed." "If we wait for perfect answer, the world will pass us by."
韦尔奇将自己的管理理念提炼成一系列金句——“官僚主义者应当被蔑视和赶走。”“如果我们总是等待完美答案，这个世界将与我们擦肩而过。”
Combative adj. 有野心的， Ambitious/Aggressive 一样
Five fold， 五倍， Five times
Shed v.摆脱， 去除 get rid off
Tenure n.任期
Distill v.提炼
Darwinian adj.达尔文的，这里指达尔文的进化论，适者生存，末位淘汰制的管理方式
Bunt adj.直率的
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