{"id":96503,"date":"2020-03-02T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=96503"},"modified":"2020-03-02T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:15:06","slug":"ge-chairman-and-ceo-larry-culp-on-the-passing-of-jack-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=96503","title":{"rendered":"GE Chairman and CEO Larry Culp on the Passing of Jack Welch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA&#8230;GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., today issued the following statement in response to the passing of former GE Chairman and CEO John F. Welch, Jr.: \u201cToday is a sad day for the entire GE family. Jack was larger than life and the heart of GE for half a century. He reshaped the face of our company and the business world. Jack was a strong and constant influence throughout my career despite never having worked directly for him. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/welch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I last saw him, what I remember most vividly was when he asked me, \u2018So how exactly are you running the company?\u2019 Jack was still in it \u2013 committed to GE\u2019s success. And to have Jack Welch ask me how I am running GE is pretty humbling. <\/p>\n<p>He will be deeply missed by me and the entire GE team. And we\u2019ll continue to honor his legacy by doing exactly what Jack would want us to do: win. <\/p>\n<p>We extend our thoughts and sympathies to Suzy and his family during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA&#8230;GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., today issued the following statement in response to the passing of former GE Chairman and CEO John F. Welch, Jr.: \u201cToday is a sad day for the entire GE family. Jack was larger than life and the heart of GE for half a century. He reshaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-obituaries","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/welch.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}