{"id":4237,"date":"2011-10-20T20:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T02:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2011-10-20T20:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T02:33:04","slug":"immelt-on-america-going-%e2%80%9call-in%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4237","title":{"rendered":"Immelt on America going \u201call-in\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/chrystia-freeland\/2011\/10\/20\/immelt-on-america-going-all-in\/\">Chrystia Freeland:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I had breakfast this week with Jeffrey R. Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric, and the main dish on the menu was tough love. In an interview before a packed hall in Times Square, the boss of the more than a century-old $177 billion global behemoth told me that Americans can still win in the global economy \u2014 but that they need to fight harder.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not trying that hard,\u201d Immelt said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t really tried as hard as we can to compete, educate and sell our products around the world and I think we can do better.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world just plays harder than we play,\u201d he said. \u201cWhether it is on exports or whether it is on foreign direct investment, the rest of the world plays for keeps. And we just don\u2019t have a similar philosophy.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nChancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has her own reasons for feeling grim, but she can take some comfort from the fact that Immelt pointed to Germany, whose version of capitalism Americans are accustomed to dismissing as plodding and inflexible, as one nation that is outselling the Yanks.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChancellor Merkel flies from Berlin to Beijing, there\u2019s 25 German C.E.O.\u2019s that get off the plane right behind her. And they connect the dots. They play hard, they play to win, they play for exports,\u201d Immelt said. \u201cWe\u2019re not all-in the same way that the Germans are all-in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Germans certainly play the world much better than we Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrystia Freeland: I had breakfast this week with Jeffrey R. Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric, and the main dish on the menu was tough love. In an interview before a packed hall in Times Square, the boss of the more than a century-old $177 billion global behemoth told me that Americans can still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,33,35,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}