As managing director of GEC since 1963, Lord Weinstock has not only steered the company successfully through financial and industrial turbulence to make it one of Britain's largest and most stable businesses of the post-Cold War era: he has also been at the centre of government/industrial relations throughout that time. Weinstock retired in 1996. A man with a strategic vision of how the modern industrial enterprise should be shaped, he has never (to date) spoken at large about his life, achievements and business philosophy. Over 30 years, he has gained unique insights into the problems of economic management and the failure of successive industrial policies. This biography explores the religious and cultural influences which have shaped the Weinstock philosophy, as well as the central themes of political influence, financial management and industrial policy. The book charts his progress from his childhood as the son of an immigrant Polish-Jewish tailor to Whitehall, the property world and the electronics and defence industry.
- ISBN10 0006387454
- ISBN13 9780006387459
- Publish Date 1 March 1999 (first published 2 March 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 March 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Business
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English