I believe everything you say. I think the long term decline of GE supports my contention that the Jack Welch way was an infection that destroyed the way people work and the conventions that informally governed relationships between corporations and employees Destructive even toxic.
When american corporations treat American workers like a commodity, then no surprise when they open plants in Mexico and Vietnam and shutter plants here.
Amen. We used to joke when they changed the name of the Personnel department to the dehumanizing and impersonal "Human Resources" that they should have just gone all in and called it "Carbon Based Unit Control". Engineers come up with stuff like that.