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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

  Benchmark the position.    When you benchmark the job (not your best talent), you have the foundation for employee performance.   Benchmark the position.    When you benchmark the job (not your best talent), you have the foundation for employee performance.

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Five Steps to Successful Execution of a Strategy

Six Disciplines

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. Step 2 above should have identified the main points, and the next step is to chunk things down into broad benchmarks with completion deadlines and personnel/budget allocation. . The success of doing both.

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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

One cannot know unless they Benchmark the Job and compare the talent to the needs of the position.    One cannot know the true performance potential of an employee team member without comparing their Behaviors, Values, and Personal Attributes to that of the Job Benchmark. What could be done differently with that knowledge?

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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. ” -Jack Welch. Digital giants start out with a design to be a monopoly on day one. They seek to dominate markets across value chains and achieve mass adoption in shorter and shorter time frames. Leaders must take a dynamic approach to leadership.