Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
blow it up
English answer:
make radical, fundamental changes
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David Russi
Aug 14, 2009 04:32
14 yrs ago
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Blow it up
English
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Investment / Securities
�Constant reinvention,� says Immelt, �is the central necessity at GE.�
Nobody understands this better than Welch, who encouraged Immelt to change just as his boss encouraged him to change decades before and so forth.
�Blow it up,� Welch told Immelt in handing him GE�s leadership reins in reference to the company�s business model which by the late 1990s needed retooling.
Nobody understands this better than Welch, who encouraged Immelt to change just as his boss encouraged him to change decades before and so forth.
�Blow it up,� Welch told Immelt in handing him GE�s leadership reins in reference to the company�s business model which by the late 1990s needed retooling.
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David Russi
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make radical, fundamental changes
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Time mastery: how temporal intelligence will make you a stronger, ... - Google Books Result
by John Clemens, Scott Dalrymple - 2005 - Business & Economics - 210 pages
... reins to Jack Welch, he encouraged Welch to "blow it up," to change the company if that was what it took to succeed. Welch told Immelt the same thing. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0814408494...
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Note added at 7 mins (2009-08-14 04:39:41 GMT)
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Time mastery: how temporal intelligence will make you a stronger, ... - Google Books Result
by John Clemens, Scott Dalrymple - 2005 - Business & Economics - 210 pages
... reins to Jack Welch, he encouraged Welch to "blow it up," to change the company if that was what it took to succeed. Welch told Immelt the same thing. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0814408494...
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Suzan Hamer
: Yes, completely demolish it (and start all over), if you have to, to successfully change the company for the better.
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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David Hollywood
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worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
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make it better than it is now and do something revolutionary to boost it's performance
I would say ...
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should read "its"
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the basic idea is to expand and improve :)
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go ahead and make it bigger and better :)
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Note added at 5 mins (2009-08-14 04:37:47 GMT)
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should read "its"
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Note added at 8 mins (2009-08-14 04:40:13 GMT)
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the basic idea is to expand and improve :)
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Note added at 12 mins (2009-08-14 04:44:05 GMT)
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go ahead and make it bigger and better :)
Discussion
by John Clemens, Scott Dalrymple - 2005 - Business & Economics - 210 pages
... reins to Jack Welch, he encouraged Welch to "blow it up," to change the company if that was what it took to succeed. Welch told Immelt the same thing. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0814408494...