General Electric’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt has called other U.S. business leaders greedy and mean.  So from whence cometh his recent conversion?Financial Times (FT) reports:Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric’s chief executive, said on Wednesday his generation of business leaders had succumbed to “meanness and greed” that had harmed the US economy and increased the gap between the rich and the poor… “We are at the end of a difficult generation of business leadership ... tough-mindedness, a good trait, was replaced by meanness and greed, both terrible traits,” said Mr. Immelt, who succeeded Jack Welch, one of the toughest leaders of his generation, at the helm of the US conglomerate. “Rewards became perverted. The richest people made the most mistakes with the least accountability.”Back in 2007, Jeff was doing alright making over $12 million. Over that and the previous four years he’d pocketed about $74.5 mil.Then, in 2008, he...(Read Full Post)