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Likability in Leadership—Necessary for Some, a Liability to Others

Great Leadership By Dan

Likewise, the aggressive and purportedly overbearing Jack Welch was highly respected and emulated, but likability was not a key ingredient for leading the massively complex global conglomerate. Lastly, I look at circumstance.

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The Cost of Low Performers

Sales Wolf Blog

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Five Steps to Successful Execution of a Strategy

Six Disciplines

You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. Develop one wisely. “You've got to eat while you dream. The success of doing both. Build a Change Map.

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A Way to Gauge How Well Your Company Is Really Performing

Harvard Business Review

When Jack Welch was CEO of GE, he famously tasked each business with achieving number 1 or number 2 status in its industry, a goal-setting principle that echoes across the decades. Or for a company’s simplistic benchmarking approach to mask, in part, its excellent performance. What about the effect of macroeconomic ups and downs?

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Managing People Effectively - Are You Mismanaging Talent?

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

For example, “50 million users” has always been the benchmark for mass adoption. This enables organizations to develop a competitive advantage. ” -Jack Welch. Digital giants start out with a design to be a monopoly on day one. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.