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...feeling on the flight back couldn't be seen in her face or body language. Once ensconced in her spacious cabin, she changed into a teal warmup suit and worked throughout the 14-hour trip home. She and her most trusted key advisors-Assistant Secretary of State David Welch and National Security Council democracy-agenda chief Elliott Abrams - communicated constantly with Washington, London, Paris and other key players via the Air Force plane's secure phone or by cell phone and text-messaging devices during a refueling stop in Ireland...
...Though Rice didn't say so in blunt terms, the moment when she first heard of the Qana tragedy was a low point. She had been meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz shortly after 8 a.m Sunday when assistant secretary of state David Welch, Rice's point man for Israeli-Arab problems, received an urgent e-mail from U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman in Beirut. Feltman didn't have many facts yet, he and Welch instinctively sensed the potential for derailing Rice's efforts to mediate a cross-border settlement. Welch slipped into the meeting to give Rice a heads...
...Meanwhile, Welch and NSC staffer Abrams were trying to salvage something positive out of the disaster. Using the Qana crisis as leverage, they exacted a commitment from Israeli officials to a U.S. proposal, which had been the table for some weeks, to suspend aerial bombing sorties over south Lebanon for 48 hours, give residents 24 hours safe passage to get out of the areas of intensive bombardment and allow humanitarian aid convoys to enter and distribute food, water and medical supplies. Israeli agreement to the limited suspension came late in the evening. Rice spokesman Adam Ereli, not the Israelis, made...
...cycle time by eliminating waste. Six Sigma was first used on a wide scale by Motorola in the 1980s as an approach to improving quality through statistical measurements and benchmarking, Evans explains. Six Sigma entered the U.S. business lexicon in a big way in the 1990s when CEO Jack Welch embraced it at General Electric...
When Suzy R. Welch ’81 falls in love, she falls hard.As an undergraduate working at The Crimson, she discovered her love for journalism. As a graduate student at Harvard Business School, she discovered her love for business—its potential and problems. And as editor of the Harvard Business Review (HBR), she discovered her love for Jack F. Welch.She met Welch, the retired CEO of General Electric, on October 11, 2001—the date is engraved on her wedding band, she says—to interview him for an HBR article. She then wrote...