Talk:Jeff Immelt/Archives/2021

Inappropriate/Biased Tone

Reads like self-praise, particularly sounds as though article tries to defend Immelt against the fact that GE performed poorly during his tenure. Just one example: "Immelt has not been a passive inheritor of 'the house that Jack built.' In fact at the outset of this time as GE's CEO, Immelt took pains to establish that he would act as 'his own man.'... he has seized the growing international nature of commerce to expand GE's operations overseas." Text suggests Immelt had special insight into the international nature of commerce and capitalized on it, but in net, his actions "seized" little and lost much.

Relatedly, there are several seemingly contradictory sentences side-by-side: In section, "Crisis Management", text says "Immelt famously offered the market and the SEC a choice in financial reports, a new dramatically expanded set of reports with more details." As article admits, this format was rejected, but next two sentences use the words "confirm" and "validate" to give the opposite impression. In section "Performance", first sentence paints a relatively glowing picture by citing a minor 3% drop in share price and rise in income, while next sentence admits 61% drop in share price. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1000:B031:11D9:D111:E5EF:E897:895F (talk) 02:24, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

It may be in bad taste to speculate, but this article looks as if it was written by Immelt or one of his associates, perhaps at GE. I don't have the knowledge or resources to investigate that, but the above IP address contributor is correct in his or her assessment of bias. As such, I have added the disputed neutrality infobox to the top of the article. (Sorry for the delay in updating this talk page section.) DasReichenz (talk) 19:50, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

• I have to agree fully about the bias. How come there is no mention of Jeffrey Immelt's push to jump on the financial trend of personal debt, and take a monopoly position in credit cards, leading up to the 2008 Financial Crisis, and his subsequent meltdown and asset disposal afterwards? General Electric, under Immelt, was blamed by a number of sources, for using predatory tactics with debtors, as GE became the largest underwriter of personal credit card debt in the United States. Why isn't this included in GE's Strategy section in this article? Jeffrey Immelt was the leadership reason why General Electric has ridden sideways over the last 10 years of business, while the majority of other U.S. and global conglomerate firms have excelled. There should be plenty of articles on the Internet that broach this topic of Jeffrey Immelt's malfeasance. If they are not included, then this is just a personal puff essay, erroneously elevating Jeffrey Immelt's mismanagement of General Electric over his years of leadership... This article needs to be reworked to include his substantial failings as well... Stevenmitchell (talk) 01:42, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

• Overhauled article. Spherical Cassowary (talk) 02:27, 19 January 2021 (UTC)