When Jack Welch was chairman and CEO of General Electric, he was widely considered to be the best manager in the world and his protégés were in demand as CEOs of their own companies. But most of these protégés failed in their new roles despite the Jack Welch connection. This activity exposes the drawbacks to the inflated status some protégés receive due to their high profile connections and how this actually does not work in their favor in the long term.