Book of bleeding obvious fails to electrify

Winning, by Jack Welch, with Suzy Welch, HarperCollins, €16.

Jack Welch is entitled to have a bit of an ego. As chief executive of the conglomerate General Electric, he turned an $8 billion company into a $400 billion one, making him one of the successful corporate leaders in history. Not bad for someone who started out as just another blue collar Irish-American with a mediocre degree and a pronounced stutter.

That said, you ...