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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Did you bestow the title upon yourself simply because you had the authority to do so, or are you the right person for the job? As the founder, can you, or should you, attempt to grow with the company?

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. What’s needed is less smoke and mirrors and more common sense.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Here are my top blog picks for the week June 7th - 13th, 2010.  Enjoy!

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Possibility Maximizer: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Gladwell must have been impressed by the book too, as he wrote an exclusive review for Amazon.com which also choose The Checklist Manifesto  for its book of the month in December 2009. License. .

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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. Winning is the biggest force multiplier that a leader has. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6 There were three problems in particular: The Board Was Too Big.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. The generation we call the 'silent' generation and the early Boomer cohort exemplified the 'sold my soul to the company store' gospel.

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