First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Sources of Innovation Eric von Hippel The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity Phil Stutz and Barry Michels Squirrels, Boats and Thoroughbreds: Lessons for Leading Change, in Traditional Businesses Jamie Gerdsen The Solution (..)

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Blog Welch Creativity Tools 75

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? Here is the press release from the Hay study: The 8 th annual Hay Group study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. 68 percent. 47 percent.

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Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Here's the 2nd in a series of guest posts by Professor Jim Clawson , one of our Executive Development Program instructors for a custom program we offer on Leading Change. A community (or nation) that rates high on conformity is less likely to be adaptive, innovative, and probably even viable. How much do we allow original thoughts?

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Management Welch McCarthy Organizational Behavior 231

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.”

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Covey Welch Long-term Collins 127

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 the first part of this century, innovation became the priority.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Michael Carty, XpertHR : Why It's Time for HR to 'Step to the Front' in 2011 Drew Tarvin, Humor's' Office : 5 Work Resolutions You Shouldn't Make (And One You Should) Kaihan Krippendorff, Fast Company : Five Innovative New Year's Resolutions Roberta Matuson, Fast Company : Will 2011 Be Your Best Year Ever ?

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Blog Ingham Human Capital Human Resources 200

Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Whenever I hold a strategic planning session, the first value that all the executives agree on is integrity. For a number of years, Enron was cited as one of America’s most innovating and daring companies. Jack Welch calls it “candor.” Integrity in Business and How it Translates to Success. For example, Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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Welch Chemicals Open-book Strategic Planning 92

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

 By regularly gathering top executives from major global organizations it has its finger firmly placed on the pulse of what business leaders are seeing in their respective industries and reports this information to help paint a broader picture of what is happening in the national and world markets.

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. link] Lisa Welch Hi Mike: Thanks for taking something so confusing and adding clarity by doing little more than telling the truth. Thanks for the great insights Rob. Thanks for sharing! Nicely done Mike!

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Media Blog Tools Influence 318

Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Jack Welch had some of it, but the sports coaches were a law unto themselves. Reply Ken Carroll November 8, 2010 at 1:08 am There’s something great about the old style leaders, espeically in sports. They had a no-nonsense integrity that is often lost in the slickness of modern business. Much to be learned from them.

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Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Workshop 190

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

During that prep meeting, the staff person strongly encouraged her to downplay or even eliminate any discussion of the newer, more innovative things she was working on — and not to ask the CEO for anything specific, like a policy decision, funding, or public support. "A While this sounds extreme, it''s really a pervasive dynamic.

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Execution Middle Management Welch CEO 8

LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

SHAWN: I’m Shawn Hunter, and well, what I do, my day job is I’m an executive producer for Leadership Solutions, for Skillsoft, and so to that end, I travel around the world with colleagues, and we track down really interesting people. People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management.

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Chief Operating Officer Innovation Learning-by-Doing Books 60

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (1967). By Jack Welch. 8) Anchor the Changes in Corporate Culture. Human Resource Champions (1996).

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Serious chief executives explicitly redefine the key words organizations use to explain themselves. While the incumbent customer lexicon wasn’t abandoned, it neither drove nor literally defined how marketers and innovators talked about the people they were serving. Ford wouldn’t have succeeded without it.

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CEO Welch Health Care Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy' It’s time to make business human again.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This sense of being pushed and pulled every which way – without having any broader context or a sense that you’re getting somewhere – is something I see all too often in organizations, as executives try to keep up with new competitors or business trends.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Composed almost entirely of independent directors, it was a distinguished and diversified group of former top executives and other leaders with relevant experience. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In October 2000, Jack Welch announced the biggest deal of his 20-year tenure as head of GE: a $45 billion merger with Honeywell. Their aim is to drive out executives who are past their prime. But they also found evidence for the importance of executive experience for a company’s financial success.

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CEO Policies Welch Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. Innovation is always the product of teaming.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

As Michael Maccoby pointed out in The Productive Narcissist , many well-known, even iconic leaders such as Martha Stewart, Jack Welch, and Bill Gates are almost certainly narcissistic personalities, and narcissism is useful for attaining leadership positions, maintaining power, and even stimulating creativity and innovation.

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Welch COO Constraint CEO 14

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. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

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. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. Pragmatism. When the U.S.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 302

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

This is a familiar and understandable concern and is usually the number one agenda item in many executive offices. 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). Leading Health Care Innovation. Intelligent Redesign of Health Care.

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Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Hmmm… Furthermore, studies show that active readers are likely to have annual incomes more than 5 times greater than those who spend little or no time reading.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

There are few things in life as thought provoking as witnessing what by all outward appearances seems to be a successful executive, but as you begin to peel back the layers of their carefully crafted veneer, you quickly come to realize that they are little more than an empty, bitter, and frustrated person. Happy New Year Jay. I Think Not.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 376

Women in the LEAD

MARCH 7, 2010

Debbe Debbe Kennedy, founder, president and CEO Women in the Lead   at the Global Dialogue Center Leadership Solutions Companies Berrett-Koehler author, Putting Our Differences to Work The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership, and High Performance It's a New DAY! Terrill Welch - A woman behind women www.awomanbehindwomen.ca

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Welch Katz Globalization Conference 45

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. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

After a few years, senior executives get distracted by other demands, or new leaders focus on other ways to improve performance. In 1999, CEO Chad Holliday talked with Larry Bossidy and Jack Welch at GE, and decided to launch a Six Sigma program. Brad Power (bradfordpower@gmail.com) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Books Executive Coaching Welch Consultative 102

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Of the many contributions Jack Welch has made to business wisdom, one of his most famous was “Be #1 or #2 in every market.” Similarly, categories decline when categories hit their peak and are replaced by better, more innovative categories. steven moore for hbr. Categories grow when they go from niche (e.g.,

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Strategy Mass Marketing Business Model Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

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.” Two hundred stations, and the innovation of lightweight, leather cantinas to carry the mail westward. The Pony Express was the answer.

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Management System Learning-by-Doing Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

And as AI and robotics increasingly supplement and replace the work of humans, the expectations of leaders — truly understanding the work, how it can be executed now and in the future, and the cost, capability and risk implications of current and future work options — are increasing exponentially. Expert Coaching.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

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. Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation.

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Blog Blue Ocean Strategy Collins Video 299

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? While they are focused on optimization, their shareholders continue to demand that they pay out greater dividends or engage in larger share buy backs instead of investing their profits for future innovation. ” -Jack Welch. Rule the World.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130