Blow it up

English translation: make radical, fundamental changes

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English term or phrase:blow it up
Selected answer:make radical, fundamental changes
Entered by: David Russi

04:32 Aug 14, 2009
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Investment / Securities
English term or phrase: Blow it up
�Constant reinvention,� says Immelt, �is the central necessity at GE.�
Nobody understands this better than Welch, who encouraged Immelt to change just as his boss encouraged him to change decades before and so forth.
�Blow it up,� Welch told Immelt in handing him GE�s leadership reins in reference to the company�s business model which by the late 1990s needed retooling.
Shirley Fan
Local time: 19:10
make radical, fundamental changes
Explanation:
My interpretation

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Time mastery: how temporal intelligence will make you a stronger, ... - Google Books Result
by John Clemens, Scott Dalrymple - 2005 - Business & Economics - 210 pages
... reins to Jack Welch, he encouraged Welch to "blow it up," to change the company if that was what it took to succeed. Welch told Immelt the same thing. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0814408494...
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David Russi
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Local time: 05:10
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4 +6make radical, fundamental changes
David Russi
4make it better than it is now and do something revolutionary to boost it's performance
David Hollywood


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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
blow it up
make radical, fundamental changes


Explanation:
My interpretation

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Note added at 7 mins (2009-08-14 04:39:41 GMT)
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Time mastery: how temporal intelligence will make you a stronger, ... - Google Books Result
by John Clemens, Scott Dalrymple - 2005 - Business & Economics - 210 pages
... reins to Jack Welch, he encouraged Welch to "blow it up," to change the company if that was what it took to succeed. Welch told Immelt the same thing. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0814408494...

David Russi
United States
Local time: 05:10
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thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kmtext
2 hrs
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agree  orientalhorizon
3 hrs
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agree  Suzan Hamer: Yes, completely demolish it (and start all over), if you have to, to successfully change the company for the better.
4 hrs
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agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
10 hrs
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agree  George C.
11 hrs
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agree  Rolf Keiser
1 day 3 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
blow it up
make it better than it is now and do something revolutionary to boost it's performance


Explanation:
I would say ...

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Note added at 5 mins (2009-08-14 04:37:47 GMT)
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should read "its"

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Note added at 8 mins (2009-08-14 04:40:13 GMT)
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the basic idea is to expand and improve :)

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Note added at 12 mins (2009-08-14 04:44:05 GMT)
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go ahead and make it bigger and better :)

David Hollywood
Local time: 08:10
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24
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