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Ex-GE CEO Jeff Immelt discusses the importance of taking personal responsibility.

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Polina Pompliano
May 23, 2021
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Good morning, friends!

Jeff Immelt's first day as CEO at General Electric was on Sept. 10, 2001. The next day, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook the world, the financial markets, and GE's business. The airplanes, one of them powered by GE engines, crashed into the WTC towers, which were insured by GE Capital.

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