Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. In our view, the fault nearly always lies in the company’s strategy execution process. You have to pay attention to the human factor and design a strategy execution process which takes it into consideration.

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Execution Strategy Succession Short-term 70

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

For example, in Corporate America, a woman's wardrobe is an essential component of her presentation. When the connecting process gets to the "D" stage, stop talking. List your main points and after each write a story or interesting example to bring the point to life. The fact is, people do judge by appearances.

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Skills How To Audience Welch 169

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. Companies in industrial businesses had to drive costs down and execution up and create foolproof processes to ensure quality. In fact, we defined growth as a process. Let’s take the 1990s. Or take Ebola.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. For example, does 1 cup of water plus 1 cup of water equal 2 cups of water? Their efforts are interdependent.”. Edwards Deming, The New Economics.

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Deming Welch System Open-book 28

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Chris Ferdinandi, Renegade HR : How To Hire Better - Check out this short but powerful post by Chris where he uses a real life example to illustrate the classic conundrum that arises from the traditional interview-based hiring process.  Here are my picks for the week of October 4th - 10th, 2010.  Enjoy!

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Steve Farber

MARCH 26, 2014

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. ” Another guest, Janet Bray Attwood, who co-authored the bestselling book, The Passion Test , will teach participants her process for, in her words, “discovering your life purpose.”. “To

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Press Release Simon Magazine Participative 71

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Specifically, employees perceive the fairness of evaluation processes when they feel included and respected. When employees perceive fairness in the evaluation processes, they are more likely to accept their evaluations, in which case they will digest the information contained in the evaluations and motivate themselves accordingly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Yes, “ leading by example ” is essential. ” She felt the company’s existing analytics and processes simply didn’t go far enough in improving customer experiences. Machine learning, for example, is now as integral to Microsoft’s new value vocabulary as great code. Ambiguity is the enemy.

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CEO Welch Health Care Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6 There were three problems in particular: The Board Was Too Big.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In that period at General Electric, for example, engineers hired right out of school went through a career development process which included managerial training. Jack Welch laid off thousands, "de-layering," as some people called it. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers. Look laterally for career moves.

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Career Welch Information Technology Training 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, many times I've heard people say that their manager is " unapproachable " or " too busy " to talk about changing the way things are done. Jack Welch used to say that self-confident people are one of the key characteristics of a high-performing organization — because they will not be afraid to speak up.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

For example, Jack Welch used the mantra of "speed, simplicity, and self-confidence" as the beacon for his transformation of GE's culture in the 1990's — in stark contrast to the company's analytical, bureaucratic, and hierarchical culture at the time. Put teeth into the new culture by integrating it into HR processes.

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Influence Welch Guidelines Goal 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

He introduced a strategic planning process directed from the center. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new. Business schools.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

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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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. The hard part is executing the idea to build a business, which takes a process that actually works.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

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. not enough “A players”, or ready successors) and use the process to focus their recruiting efforts (buy vs. build).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

For example, during CEO Mary Barra’s testimony in Washington, few lawmakers seemed interested in exactly how GM plans to change its processes, and Barra, while acknowledging that the company needs to improve safety procedures, made it clear that the company won’t share the data from its internal investigation of ignition-switch defects.

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Incentives Performance Review Welch Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

But that was a good thing: Intense debate over conflicting views is an accepted part of the process at Greylock and occurred regularly when the company made its biggest and most successful bets on Facebook, Pandora, and Airbnb. Recently, Surowiecki notes, the U.S. has been all about enforcing stringent intellectual-property rules.

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Engineering Welch Media Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

For example, when Google launched a big data-driven program to identify what separated their top managers from the rest, and they ended up with bromides such as "be a good coach," "empower your team" and "be a good communicator.". In short, he is an empire builder, and we don't have to look far to find examples of empire-building bosses.

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Management Gordon Welch Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

While this process does help to leverage a leader''s time, it also has its dark side — it shields the senior executive from direct contact with many of the issues, dynamics, and ideas that are percolating throughout the organization. As a senior leader, breaking through this pattern is not easy.

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Execution Middle Management Welch CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

One rule I use when working with collaborators is to ensure I have something to send over to them by the end of the day: this helps me avoid getting into an open-ended search process. Third, even though we live in an era of ubiquitous information, we should not be afraid to bring our intuition and emotion to the table.

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Management Welch Simon Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I still see examples of what happened at Mid Staffs in even the best of hospitals. 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). Leaders need to build reliable processes to hear the staff. Could it happen elsewhere?

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Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 9

Women in the LEAD

MARCH 7, 2010

Posted by: Terrill Welch | March 06, 2009 at 12:17 PM This was such an exciting and riveting conference. " it is a process and the bud opens when YOU are ready. Thank you for the "Women in the Lead" on-line conference and the opportunity to connect with women and women leaders around the world. rikki leiberman.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 25, 2012

Employee turnover is not a single event ; it is really a process of disengagement that can take days, weeks, months, or even years. Even in the 80's and early '90's, they were good stewards and heroes--Lee Iacocca, Jack Welch, et. In the book, Branham teaches readers how to : Avoid employee-job mismatches.

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Survey Open-book Welch Books 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Five years ago, Jack Welch famously stated that there are three fundamental ways to motivate employees: financial rewards, recognition, and a clear mission. Unlike Welch’s 41-year tenure at GE, today’s employees are expected to hold an average of 10 jobs before the age of 40. Install a TV showing a few data dashboards.

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Team Welch Motivation Metrics 10

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. Welch’s “boundaryless organization” should seemingly be the de facto reality for most companies. They didn’t want to implement processes that prevented this.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Although it may be counter-intuitive, one of the most powerful changes you can make in your organization is to increase spans of control — a simple shift that can liberate employees, streamline the hierarchy, simplify processes, and reduce costs. This distortion of communication often leaves senior managers out of touch.

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Report Span of Control Welch Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Jack Welch had it right: you should continually subtract out the bottom 10% of your team. As long as there is a good review and development process (e.g. And if it is too hard to remember the specific examples above, just remember this: when in doubt, subtract. Subtract and seduce around a single idea. Subtract Your People.

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Power Document Self-aware Welch 9

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Unlimited suggests the Biblical leader, Nehemiah, is a great example of all the roles, but fits well as an ambassador. The good news is that people generally rise to the level of expectations placed on them.” Mark Miller. Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” ” Follow Chery.

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Leadership Engineering Welch Collins 180

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

As it turns out, using data rather than gut instinct helps us select the right CEO candidate for a company about 90% of the time, as opposed to a 50% error rate in a conventional interview process. Question : Which of your findings are most surprising? Why is it a problem? These stereotypes affect our perception of what we can achieve.

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CEO Books Succession Charisma 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

As an example, over the last few years every US state has done precisely that. Earlier this month, in a spirited defense of the forced curve, Jack Welch advocated rating people on lists of competencies so that you can, in his words, “let them know where they stand.” Joe to Sacramento. Who is our Baron Schilling?

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Management System Learning-by-Doing Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., ” Let’s go back to the IBM example. Consider, for example, open enrollment at the John F. In his own words, “it was a truly formative experience.”

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. You could no more separate out his need to dominate all that he touches than you could get him to wear a suit and tie in a television interview. GE and HCL.

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Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113