Jack Welch — who spent two decades as the chairman and CEO of General Electric, including while it was the parent company of NBC — died Monday, his wife announced.
Welch was 84."More than anything else — leader, business icon, management genius — more than those things, although they are all true too — Jack was a lifeforce made of love," Suzy Welch said in a statement obtained by CNBC. "Pure, bright, undiminishable love.
His irrepressible passion for people, all people, his brilliant curiosity about every-single-thing-on-earth, his gargantuan generosity of spirit toward friends and strangers alike — they added up to a man who was superhuman yet completely human at once.Suzy Welch added, "He changed the world by touching people deeply and.
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