Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 14, 2011

    The Resource: Extraordinary Leadership by Robin Sharma What it is About:  Extraordinary Leadership is predicated around a simple but profound philosophy: "If you consume oxygen, you are a leader."   Today I have an excellent audio book from Robin Sharma to share with you.  Enjoy! .

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Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2012

According to a 2010 Virtual Teams Survey Report, respondents identified lack of clear leadership as a major obstacle for virtual teams and cited the need for an improved management process. As Jack Welch counsels new leaders, “It’s about them, not about you.” All great leaders put their team’s interests ahead of their own.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Getting Honest Feedback From Your Coach It’s hard for CEOs to improve their leadership because they rarely get candid feedback from their subordinates who fear possible retribution. This is why hire an executive coach!

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Getting Honest Feedback From Your Coach It’s hard for CEOs to improve their leadership because they rarely get candid feedback from their subordinates who fear possible retribution. This is why hire an executive coach!

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s hard for CEOs to improve their leadership because they rarely get candid feedback from their subordinates who fear possible retribution. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 9, 2013

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. Source: Arthur Samuel Joseph: Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication Mastery, with a foreword by Roger Goodell. Source: The Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2013.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

Leadership. by John • August 7, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life • 0 Comments. Beyond my recreational life (weapons of choice being a tennis racquet or a golf club - on a good day I use both), I’m writing about business leadership, branding and life. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Visionary.

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Why is integrity important in leadership? Having honesty and integrity in the workplace is one of the most important qualities of great leadership in business and I am going to tell you why…. Leaders know that honesty and integrity are the foundations of leadership. For example, Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

For example, we assume our doctors know medicine, so we judge them on their bedside manner. And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. But further along in your career curve, when it’s time to step up into a leadership position, you’re going to need these qualities in spades.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

When I was first put in a position of supervising others, I received no formal training in leadership. There’s no shortage of books on the topic of leadership. You can learn about leadership, but you don’t get a clear roadmap for exactly what to do. Jeff serves as your personal coach for leadership development.

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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.  Here are my picks for the week of October 4th - 10th, 2010.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports. www.SalesTip.info. . .

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

For example, did you know that the average person misses 2.8 For example, did you know that the average person misses 2.8  In just over 15 minutes you will learn a lot of important information about the upcoming flu season - I know I certainly did. days of work when they catch the flu? days of work when they catch the flu?

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 30, 2010

  This week I've got a great leadership newsletter for you to check out.    The Resource:   The Center for Creative Leadership's Leading Effectively E-Newsletter What it is: Leading Effectively is a monthly newsletter published by the well respected Center for Creative Leadership. 

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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.  I cannot recommend highly enough that you head over and check it out for yourself!

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

Posted by: Tim Welch | August 03, 2010 at 12:46 AM Excellent points! and a Winner Announced Blog powered by TypePad Member since 09/2007 Author Chris Bradys Leadership Blog Chris Bradys Home Page Chris Bradys Rascal Tweets Chris Bradys FaceBook Chris Bradys YouTube Chris Bradys Fan Page-Rascal Nation Chris Brady on LinkedIn

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. First and foremost, your senior leadership has to be on the same page with a crisp and clear long term vision. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it.

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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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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room. That aura, that confidence, that vibe.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 7, 2012

We’re discussing how to build your leadership like an architect builds a home. There are countless architectural styles, as there are leadership styles. To narrow our focus, in both architecture and leadership, we pick broad categories to use as guide posts: Rustic Cabin. Jack Welch is a symbolic apartment leader.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Yes, “ leading by example ” is essential. Leadership is changing — fast. Successful CEOs push managers to go uncomfortably beyond faithful retransmission: they want their leadership coming up with proverbs and parables to better preach the new gospel. Ford wouldn’t have succeeded without it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

German auto manufacturer Daimler set a bold example when it launched its “Mail on Holiday” program that autodeletes an employee’s incoming emails while on vacation so they can fully disconnect. Three in 10 of our survey respondents cited “lack of support or recognition from leadership” as fueling their burnout.

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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 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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

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. ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. It was just what I was looking for.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As companies thinned out, those leadership positions disappeared — and most haven't come back since. In that period at General Electric, for example, engineers hired right out of school went through a career development process which included managerial training. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

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. We call those social comparison evaluations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Certainly not the first men to be brought down by an inability to control their impulses — these recent examples join a long list including John Edwards, Bill Clinton, and Harry Stonecipher of Boeing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Running a country calls for a sophisticated array of leadership skills — from shaping strategy to building a team to managing day-to-day operations. But whether we're talking about Romney or not, it's important to question whether consulting is good preparation for leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2013

A long, long time ago, back in the days when Jack Welch was leading GE, organizations starting using a “9 box” performance and potential matrix for succession planning and leadership development. leadership and results”, or “leadership and management”). Despite its critics, the 9 box lives on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Jack Welch. Yelling was an integral part of their leadership and management styles. Does that make Sir Alex’s leadership less worthy of study and emulation? Neither Stanley Kubrick nor Howard Hawks, for example, were mutes. Communication Leadership Managing people' Steve Jobs. Jeff Bezos. Martha Stewart.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

Trouble is, any candidate can easily fake answers to those questions: “What’s an example in which you were a very good team player?” Years ago Jack Welch, then CEO of GE, said he was happy the interview guide was helping GE pick people better, but he wanted 90% success and asked me for a suggestion.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 11, 2011

These twelve people have influenced they way I think about leadership. And yes, they really know what they're talking about. Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. The last is to say thank you.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. By stark contrast, IBM's Lou Gerstner practiced a cultivated deliberateness in his successful turnaround: Slow and steady won his leadership race. That's a mug's game.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

I worked with another organization, for example, where project teams regularly held a series of "pre-meetings" with staff people before reviewing progress with a senior sponsor — with the goal of producing a slide deck that wouldn''t raise any questions. Communication Leadership Managing up'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It is tempting to seek evidence to support every argument we make, but the most successful business leaders — from Jack Welch to Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos — have always sought to combine rational and intuitive thinking. Leadership & Managing People Book. An ounce of real insight is worth a pound of data. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I still see examples of what happened at Mid Staffs in even the best of hospitals. I offer three recommendations to ensure that we keep these promises to those who depend on our leadership. Earlier in my career, I had the chance to visit leaders such as Jack Welch (GE), Paul O’Neill (Alcoa), and Ralph Larsen (Johnson & Johnson).

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Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 9

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be.

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