316 | William D. Cohan: The Rise & Unimaginable Fall of General Electric, America's Iconic Corporation
The Realignment
The Realignment
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving break. |
| 0:12.0 | Today's episode is a great one. I'm speaking with William D. Cohen, but his book, Power |
| 0:16.7 | Filnier, The Rise and Fall, The Wyrk and Icon. Book is basically a corporate autopsy. |
| 0:23.0 | As William puts it of General Electric, books remember back in June. I did an episode with |
| 0:28.8 | the New York Times's David Gellies. We spoke about Jack Camp, the most famous CEO of GE. |
| 0:35.0 | So it's great to double down on the story and really fits into our recent theme and coverage |
| 0:39.7 | of industry and what happened to America during the 20th century. If you're interested in |
| 0:44.4 | business journalism, if stories like the fall from the FTX and San Bigger, Fried scandal, |
| 0:50.3 | our relevancy is just a great conversation that fits into that theme. Quick couple notes |
| 0:54.6 | before we get into this episode. Number one, there is a link in the show notes to the |
| 0:58.8 | realignment conference that is going to happen in Washington, DC on January 25th, 2023. |
| 1:04.4 | So if you'd like to hang out with Saga, me and Saga in person, she definitely go check |
| 1:09.2 | the conference out. It's going to be really great time. We're going to cover the feature |
| 1:11.9 | of the American right and American politics moving into 2023. Secondly, we are moving |
| 1:17.4 | into 2023. So with that, we've got the final month of shows. As you guys know, I'm doing |
| 1:23.3 | this intensive daily episode period. We're going to cover all of the topics that you guys |
| 1:27.7 | are going to hear going into the end of the year. If you want to send your suggestions, |
| 1:32.5 | you know, realignment pod at geoword.com, guests, topics, focus areas, anything is up for |
| 1:38.1 | grabs. And then of course, if you enjoy this content and you want to support the hard work |
| 1:42.3 | of putting out those daily episodes like the Ukraine series, you should go to reallignment |
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