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The Personal Power of Your Voice

Coaching Tip

In this concept, power is not aggressive or domineering, rather it is to be sovereign; supreme excellence or an example of it is at the root of this word. This communication is subliminally conveyed through pitch, timbre, volume, energy, willpower, conviction--these are but a few of the elements that compel us to listen.

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Jeff Wolf and Seven Disciplines of a Leader

Your Voice of Encouragement

You’ll find out what to do and how to do it, with real-life examples. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders—people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.” - Jack Welch, American business leader (1935- ). That’s because of the book’s structure.

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GE’s Culture Challenge After Welch and Immelt

Harvard Business Review

How do they understand the need to change and create the energy and urgency around it? Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. Accordingly, Welch’s successor, Jeff Immelt, drove GE to achieve growth through innovation. Or take Ebola.

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Summit Press Release

Steve Farber

Farber goes on to cite the example of Jay Jay French, who is the founder, manager, and guitarist of one of the world’s most renowned metal bands. There is no better example of this than Frank DeAngelis, the principal of Columbine High School. He brings tremendous value to this event.

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To Lead Change, Explain the Context

Harvard Business Review

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For example, one large retail company has been starting and stopping a number of new initiatives as it searches for the magic solution to counteract more and more consumers shopping online. This case isn’t the exception.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business Review

The message was intended to inspire new energy in the company at a pivotal time: “While we have seen great success, we are hungry to do more. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in.

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business Review

For example, in one of our studies we had participants work on a task for two rounds. If performance evaluations that compare employees’ performance to those of others sound unfamiliar, let us give you an example. Such evaluations might have increased the employees’ concentration and led them to exert more energy at work.