Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Kermit Pattison, Fast Company : Chip Conley Took the Maslow Pyramid, Made it an Employee Pyramid and Saved His Company - You are likely familiar with Abraham Maslow's psychological hierarchy of needs and how it applies to human behavior and motivation.  Wally suggests keeping it simple and focusing on the basics.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.  However, The Conference Board does much more than just report on leading economic indicators.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Rob Tucker, Reading About Leading : How to Encourage Others to Take Ownership - Sadly, over the past decade, the idea of employee ownership has become yet another detestable buzzword espoused by disconnected senior leadership and plastered on internal marketing collateral.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

 Tom implores you to stop viewing the world and the economy in a state of "nuclear winter" and take action NOW to grab market share from your competitors who are stuck whining and complaining about the economy. Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisa : Succession Planning. Fascinating. Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisa : Succession Planning.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

 The folks at Monster Thinking are in the trenches of the recruiting and career industry and are highly in tune with what is happening in the employment market.  The folks at Monster Thinking are in the trenches of the recruiting and career industry and are highly in tune with what is happening in the employment market.

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

Most of us are familiar with the concept of "white space" derived from the fields of marketing and graphical design.  Most of us are familiar with the concept of "white space" derived from the fields of marketing and graphical design. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

  Financial markets seem to be in perpetual chaos, our environment is in peril due to natural and man made disasters, and feelings of uncertainty abound in our everyday lives.    Together, the newsletter and blog are a powerful one-two punch to knock the fear out of your life.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

  One unique feature of their knowledge resource center that I particularly like is that in addition to publishing great primary research, they also compile secondary market data and research and organize it into convenient and easy to read tables and graphs that make following government data and macroeconomic trends a breeze. 

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

At one well-regarded web services firm, the new CEO wanted her company to become more customer-focused – indeed “customer-obsessed.” ” She felt the company’s existing analytics and processes simply didn’t go far enough in improving customer experiences.

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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. pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Many companies are inconsistent in their strategic direction, often because leaders want to find the next shiny new idea that will transform (or save) the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If some of the buzz is any indication — and I believe it will be — it's a concept that will gain a lot of traction this year as more companies look for ways to better manage dwindling natural resources and more consumers demand action on environmental issues. The marketing model changes. How do you begin to address those?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Career ladders died out during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when over 85% of Fortune 1000 American companies downsized their white-collar workforce.* As companies thinned out, those leadership positions disappeared — and most haven't come back since. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. These businesses now make up more than half the company. Yet leaders of both companies persevered despite these headwinds, setbacks, and challenges. Of course, none of these shifts are easy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

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. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. This includes having an in-house recruiting firm to locate the best engineering talent for the start-ups it funds, a huge boon in a wildly competitive job market.

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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. Whereas Gerstner famously declared "the last thing IBM needs is a vision," Palmisano had a clear vision for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. These businesses now make up more than half the company. Yet leaders of both companies persevered despite these headwinds, setbacks, and challenges. Of course, none of these shifts are easy.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. Companies are made of people, so dreams matter.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

 Today I would like to highlight a great resource that comes out each month from LinkUp that will help you keep tabs on which direction the employment market is moving.  Enjoy!  Currently LinkUp is keeping tabs on job postings from over 21,000 organizations.

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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. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Social Media Marketing an hour a day – Dave Evens 7.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

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

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was largely championed by Jack Welch, then CEO of GE. Our communications technologies have dramatically improved, and we have instantaneous access to massive amounts of information. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Within two years after becoming chief executive of General Electric in 1981, Jack Welch completed one of his most far-reaching initiatives: reducing the number of GE business units from about 150 to 15. In effect, Welch set out to focus the company on the businesses where it had the potential for greatness, and to jettison everything else.

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CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

Even politicians these days use books as part of their own marketing campaign and messaging strategies. She supports first-time and seasoned authors in their book writing, publishing and marketing endeavors through coaching and training in her “Your Book Is Your Hook!” Technology and its role in travel 2.0 consulting practice.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. Welch Leadership Center at Crotonville where leaders from other organizations (e.g.,

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

Will their company become personality-driven and celebrity led? There's Steve Jobs , Warren Buffett , Bill Gates and many others, who may not be immediately involved in the day-to-day, but are certainly respected as drivers of the companies we associate with them. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? and has studied emerging business and technology trends. You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. How is extreme consolidation changing global business?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”.

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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. He spared us the business speak and rhetoric and said things that all leaders needed to hear.

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