Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Jim Shaffer, author of The Leadership Solution , believes that top companies are guided by these three best principles: They value their people. The CEO is the communication champion. It stats with leadership. It’s driven home with leadership.”. Jack Welch says, “It’s not a speech… or a videotape.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2023

Lisa is the CEO of Center for Mentoring Excellence, a global speaker on mentoring, and co-author of The Mentor’s Guide and Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring. For more information, see The Mentor’s Guide or Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring. This is a guest post by Lisa Z. Harness the Power of Complementary Mentoring.

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Mentor How To Welch Learning-by-Doing 94

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

We apply these behavioral criteria to almost any successful person, whether it’s our CEO or our plumbing contractor. And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. That’s when the GE board wanted to know if he could behave as a CEO. Leadership' What would they be?

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Chemicals Welch CFO CEO 133

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Over the years, I have continued to use Windows software in my personal computers (where all my business information is created and stored) but continue to use the non-software compatible Apple iPhone (because Microsoft hadn''t yet caught up within the leaders of the mobile software marketplace). John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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Competitive Advantage Software Welch Marketing Strategy 85

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

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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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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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Steve Farber

MARCH 26, 2014

Press Release : Fortune 500 Executive Leadership Coach and Best-Selling Author to Share Stage with Mega-Rockstar at 2nd Annual Extreme Leadership Summit in Chicago this April 11-13. Farber is a top leadership consultant to senior executives of many Fortune 500 companies. The event will run for three days starting April 11.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 25, 2010

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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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 10, 2010

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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Critical Success Factor Succession Human Resources Blog 181

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

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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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Special Edition 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership examines what it takes to achieve real and meaningful organizational change in a way that improves overall performance and ultimately enhances the bottom line. Randy’s book, Transformational Leadership , can be purchased by clicking here.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Jim was animated, passionate, informative and lucid. Where Jim fell short in my opinion was that if you’ve heard Jim before, there wasn’t a lot of new information. Never confuse power with leadership. He is a great presenter and was highly entertaining. My problem is that I was looking to be more than entertained.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

The CEOs and heads of HR at General Electric, Honeywell, Lincoln Financial, American Heart Association, and dozens of entrepreneurs have personally vouched for improvements to 80% and even 90% hiring success. Let me assure you, those results are for real! But phone screens take 10-20 hours and two weeks of telephone tag. Double ugh!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon first suggested 40 years ago , when information is plentiful, attention becomes the scarce resource. Second, and more difficult, is figuring out when to stop gathering information. Leadership & Managing People Book. An ounce of real insight is worth a pound of data. Further Reading.

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Management Welch Simon Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In the 20th century, a select group of leaders — General Motor's Alfred Sloan, HP's David Packard and Bill Hewlett, and GE's Jack Welch — set the standard for the way corporations are run. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. It is not about you.

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Women in the LEAD

MARCH 7, 2010

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? Posted by: Terrill Welch | March 06, 2009 at 12:17 PM This was such an exciting and riveting conference. Congratulations on the event!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Two-thirds of CEOs don''t receive any outside advice on their leadership skills, and yet almost all would be receptive to suggestions from a coach. This makes the coaching environment a rare and safe place to think through various topics against the framework of what is in the CEO''s best interest. What''s behind that?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

Not long ago I sat in on a meeting of the executive leadership team for a global technology company. At the beginning of the session, the CEO quickly flashed a couple of slides on the screen that summarized key aspects of the firm's strategy, saying, "You've all seen these charts before, so we don't have to dwell on them."

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We apply these behavioral criteria to almost any successful person – whether it’s a CEO or a plumber. Jack Welch has a Ph.D. Jack Welch has a Ph.D. When he was vying for the CEO job, the issues holding him back were strictly behavioral – his brashness, his blunt language, his unwillingness to suffer fools.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

The previous power sharing involved both Eric Schmidt as CEO and the advisory pair - cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Now, Mr. Page is assuming the CEO position. Even when there appears to be a single voice, that person is informed by the filtered information that rises up from the expertise below. GE and HCL.

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Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bravo Nando… Jack Welch - The former Chairman and CEO of GE reminded us of the value of candor. Candor, clarity, humility, passion and a heart for service characterize Jack Welch. We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing.

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