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N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 21, 2011
Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? As the founder, can you, or should you, attempt to grow with the company? What does a CEO really do anyway?
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 2, 2010
If you’re among the group of active users who no longer find it confusing, but still haven’t hit your stride, you’re also in good company. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2018
During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? The Board Had No Finance Committee.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 5, 2018
Of course, GE is not dead, and it may well revive and flourish as a company. Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing. Business schools.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 13, 2014
The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence. And yet, more than 50 years later, companies have become worse, not better, at answering it correctly – far worse. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2014
Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. I’d be interested, Palmisano replied, but only “if Bill took the company private.”. They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. Communication Finance Getting buy-in'
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2014
GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.
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