Over the last three years, John Flannery has transformed GE Healthcare.
He dragged a flat-lining business into the black. He reorganized staff to energize departments he thought had grown stagnant. He extended the company’s ability to support biologic drug manufacturing. And he poured more emphasis into emerging markets around the world.
Flannery is an accountant, you need a PhD scientist to be CEO of
General Electric , like Jack Welch or Tom Vanderslice to drive innovation.