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Hot Seat: Jeff Immelt at GE

Leading Blog

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift. Tech start-ups define success, especially in the first decade, on how well they acquire customers, build capability, and penetrate their emerging markets.

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product. Apple always aims to set itself apart from competitors not by price but by competitive advantages based on product design that attracts customers.

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Under-Whelming Advice from a former CEO of Southwest Airlines

Leadership Freak

He was the CEO of Southwest Airlines during the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. I’m still grappling with Jim Parker’s advice. Jim said, “I don’t think I smiled for two years.” When… Continue reading →

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Global Trade Has Widened The Pay Gap Within Firms

The Horizons Tracker

The noticeable thing, however, is that this success does not result in higher pay for workers. To explore this matter, the researchers looked specifically at China’s ascension to the World Trade Organisation in 2001. They looked at firms that had existing trading ties with the country before 2001, and firms that didn’t.

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How Language Can Help CEO Successions Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this apparent success however, the strategies were not without risk, and should certainly not be regarded as a sure fire way of delivering results. Similarly, if the CEO engaged in a degree of self-promotion, they were found to mitigate the impact of a poor reaction from the stock market. No silver bullet. ” Social influence.

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Are You Using These 4 Steps For Organizational Success?

Tanveer Naseer

The reason why they were able to be successful in “delivering happiness” was because those in charge realized that they had to define for everyone on their team what it takes to deliver happiness not just to their customers, but to everyone they interact with. Zappos’ success and reputation is not simply because they were the first.

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Female Inventors Get A Raw Deal Compared To Male Inventors

The Horizons Tracker

“We examine 309,544 patent applications filed with IP Australia (the majority from international applicants) across a 15-year period (2001–15) and attribute a gender to 941,516 inventor names,” the researchers explain. What is less clear is whether those applications have been successful or not. “Only 23.6%