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Ex-GE chief dishes out advice

"Don’t fall in love with your workers," a business instructor tells a student who’s launching a small start-up company. "If you’ve got 16 employees, at least two are turkeys."

It’s hardly the only piece of blunt, politically incorrect advice the charismatic teacher dishes out in a windowless basement classroom filled with 30 MBA candidates.

If it sounds like he is copping an I’ve-seen-it-all attitude, it’s because he has reason to. He’s Jack Welch.

Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0610140038oct14,0,7865189.story?coll=chi-business-hed

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