Former GE CEO Immelt promises unvarnished interrogation in new book
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Jeffrey Immelt in November 2008 while CEO of General Electric, in New York City. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)Mark Lennihan / AP
Former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt is publishing a memoir of his 16 years leading General Electric, with the onetime New Canaan resident having moved the conglomerate’s headquarters in 2016 to Boston from Fairfield, while selling off large chunks of Norwalk-based GE Capital.
In “HOT SEAT: What I learned leading a Great American Company” co-authored by Immelt and Amy Wallace, publisher Simon & Schuster promises “a rigorous and candid self-interrogation” of Immelt’s tenure as Jack Welch’s replacement.
How many friends do we really need to be happy?
On my quest for more meaningful friendships, I took a hard look at the people in my life. Then things got a little weird.
By Billy Baker Globe Staff,Updated January 6, 2021, 10:53 a.m.
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I removed some artwork from a wall in my office at home, got a fresh Sharpie and a stack of Post-it notes, and started writing down names.
I began by picking through the contacts in my phone, then scrolled through my 1,335 Facebook friends. Many of the choices for names to put on the wall were easy. My wife. My parents. Grandma. My younger brother in California. The Danimal, my freshman roommate. Two girls Iâd first met in fourth grade. My sister-in-law, most days. Six people Iâd met through my kids. Twenty-three journalists, which is way too many, including six from grad school. Seven people I grew up with in Southie, which is definitely too many. Eight people I went to high school wit
While theaters are shut down around the world, theater reporter and columnist Michael Riedel arrives to fill the void with the kind of reporter and backstage gossip that made his years as a New York Post theater columnist so popular.
Now working as a radio host with Len Berman on New York’s 710 WOR from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. weekdays, Riedel has just published “Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway,” his second book about a specific period of Broadway history.
Published by Simon & Schuster division Avid Reader Press, it’s a followup to “Razzle Dazzle,” an in-depth look at the role Broadway played in the revitalization of Times Square, and the boost in tourism in the 1970s.
When COVID hit, I made a vow to read any book strongly recommended to me. That s how I found myself simultaneously devouring Christie Tate s well-written memoir
GROUP: HOW ONE THERAPIST AND A CIRCLE OF STRANGERS SAVED MY LIFE (Avid Reader Press) and my favorite 2020 work of fiction, Charles Baxter s
THE SUN COLLECTIVE (Pantheon). Overachieving neurotic Tate s revelations aren t earth-shattering but give an honest, entertaining look at healing through opening up to strangers turned allies. Baxter s novel is our story: a society untethered from its moral ground, swaying in the greed and anxiety of a Trump-ish leader named Amos Alonzo Thorkelson as rumors of the mythical Sandmen killing the poor and the Sun Collective perhaps taking out the rich pollute everything. Meanwhile, Baxter s patented polite Midwesterners do their buttoned-down best to get by. Baxter remains one our very finest writers, and you should seek out his work now.
Dangerous art
Dec 18, 2020 |
New bio tells the life story of artist Tom of Finland and why his drawings are far more than erotica
Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero by F. Valentine Hooven III, foreword by Jean-Paul Gaultier. (c.2020, Cernunnos, a division of Abrams). $50; 295 pages.
Sometimes, you can’t worry about other people’s thoughts. You can listen to them, but you don’t have to hear them because there are days when making yourself happy supersedes any outside opinion, when you need to pay closer attention to you. As in the new biography