for all that ge under jack welch was viewed as a seedbed of corporate managers, i'm not sure the heirs of jack, not only his successor and others he went to other companies did as well as one might have expected and certainly the successors who are groomed within ge were unable to keep the company at the top of the corporate pyramid. we used to talk but how general electric was the only company that was an original member of the dow jones industrial average in 1896 to still be a member in 2018, though there was one brief time went it dropped out in the early 20th century but that era ended in 2018 in favor of walgreens. none of the successors came close to serving the 20 years he did and i'm not sure any of the groomed would be ceos who went elsewhere were at the top of their companies for two decades. is it fair to say the c suite blood got thin or what do you think would account for this phenomenon? >> i think the selection of ceo is literally the most important thing. the successor ceo is literally the most important thing the current ceo can do. it is remarkable to me how often we

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for all that ge under jack welch was viewed as a seedbed of corporate managers, i'm not sure the heirsof jack, not only his successor and others he went to other companies did as well as one might have expected and certainly the successors who are groomed within ge were unable to keep the company at the top of the corporate pyramid. we used to talk but how general electric was the only company that was an original member of the dow jones industrial average in 1896 to still be a member in 2018, though there was one brief time went it dropped out in the early 20th century but that era ended in 2018 in favor of walgreens. none of the successors came close to serving the 20 years he did and i'm not sure any of the groomed would be ceos who went elsewhere were at the top of their companies for two decades. is it fair to say the c suite blood got thin or what do you think would account for this phenomenon? >> i think the selection of ceo is literally the most important thing. the successor ceo is literally the most important thing the current ceo can do. it is remarkable to me how often we s

i interviewed couple of your predecessors and at that time i talked about jack welch and he said steve, let me tell you jack takes a lot of credit but he says my german shepherd could have run ge. it wasn't on the record statement so i quoted him. i'm just interested in how you look at that hubris if you will for that kind of confidence about the times and the decisions you had to make in breaking up ge. isn't there a lament that the world didn't stay static and you weren't able to continue to be this. >> when it has the world ever stayed static? life would be boring if that were the case. what we're excited about that ge is we have three phenomenal important businesses. ge healthcare,ge aerospace . if we really want to change care around the world, if we weren't going to see zero in-flight, let alone complete energy transition, ge has to play a major role. going forward i think very much in the spirit of edison those will be three independent companies . they will be focused not on corporate, not on the center, but on customers. these technology investments i think frankly at edison w

jack welch, the former hed of g.e., once said when you become a leader, success is all about growing others, and mike has always cared deeply about helping the members of our team grow. that's why he's always loved outside-the-box thinking, like when a staff member suggested that i should hop on a plane and go down to the border to find out for myself what was really happening with the administration's zero tolerance family separation policy. and it's why he embraced and championed our office's policy of inclusivety and the creation of a diversion -- an equity can go committee. -- equity committee. they share information about a wide range of issues and they work to inspire honest, open, and sometimes uncomfortable dialogues so that we can all be the best versions of ourselves, and so that we can serve all the people of oregon with the highest level of respect and responsiveness. it's why his door was always open for what he called z hours, where folks would come in and talk about anything, whether it was work related or not. the office and team work won't be the same without mike. i

we need to recognize that this was the most valuable company back in 2000, and when jack waw welch was better example of innovation and growth when he left, the company became bureaucratic their revenues are at the same level they were 26 years ago i think the trend is clear i don't see things changing. this stock appreciated by 50% since october. i think it's not a bad time to consider taking profits off the table. >> all right, our final name here is macy's what do you think about the big retailer >> that's also a sell. both of these companies were much better picks years ago. so, i'm concerned with this category in general, because more -- for more than a decade, we have seen these big-box retailers struggle since we have e-commerce now, and i don't see the trend changing in fact, when it comes to macy's, the stock price is at the same level it was back in '97, so you have to go back, again, 26 years to get the same stock level, and the revenues are at the same level they were in 2007. i don't think things will change here so that's not a good buy for me either, although i do recogn