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. Jack Welch's determination to get the right mix and then play only in games he could win created enormous wealth.

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Management Welch McCarthy Organizational Behavior 231

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? Organizations have to think differently about how they relate to their markets. Yes, Google and Zappos may be cool places to work, and Apple develops great products, but when it comes to leadership development, they may be still relatively immature.

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Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

I’ve also written a historical novel, although I’m still trying to find a publisher who isn’t afraid to invest in a newbie, grey-haired writer in a market going through drastic change. Some find happiness pursuing interests that evaded them during the demanding years in the executive suite. But, not every CEO follows this trodden path.

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CEO Golden Parachute Welch Human Resources 100

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, said, “When you were made a leader, you weren’t given a crown; you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.” Many executives experience this. Willy Steiner of Executive Coaching Concepts provided When Was Your Last “Mental Health Day”?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Emotional Intelligence 258

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

It's sad that something as important to the economy as sales shows up as a footnote in the principles of marketing course at most graduate business schools," says Andy Zoltners, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. The Uncooperative Buyer. . What is Your Competitive Advantage?

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Competitive Advantage Welch Tactics CEO 84

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Other times, shifts may be driven by disruptions and disrupters like the one happening in the transportation and hotel markets right now thanks to the likes of Uber and Airbnb. Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. In fact, we defined growth as a process.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

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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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Suzanne Rumsey, Fistful of Talent : The Voodoo That Executives Do - There is a saying I often use when discussing the impact of poor executive leadership on an organization's culture.  Enjoy! Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisa : Succession Planning. Fascinating.  Enjoy!

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 133

Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

That is All Jesse Harriot, Monster Thinking : 2011 Job Market Trends HR Introvert : Time for Due Diligence on Personal Objectivity Tim Sanders, Sanders Says : Three Lists to Make for 2011 Rachel Suff, XpertHR : New Year's Resolution: Boost Poor Performance?

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Blog Ingham Human Capital Human Resources 200

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations. Top Books About Leadership.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 79

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 318

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 92

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Randy rose to become a CEO in a General Electric Company business with the encouragement and coaching of high-level executives including the legendary GE Chairman, Jack Welch. Dickens Jr.

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations. Top Books About Leadership.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 61

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

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. He brings tremendous value to this event.

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Press Release Simon Magazine Participative 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

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

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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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

JUNE 21, 2012

This executive was widely considered among the best and brightest in his company, but it was evident that this issue needed immediate attention if he ever hoped to advance to the top spot. The definition of the market needed to be changed based on an expanded understanding of its customers' needs.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 17

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. She was always the person who took charge.”.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Jack Welch laid off thousands, "de-layering," as some people called it. For example if you are a financial analyst, consider other analyst positions in your company, perhaps in market research or sales. The Academy of Management Executive , Vol.7 Over time, the company began to bulge with managers. Downsizing: what do we know?

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Career Welch Information Technology Training 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Gerstner turned around IBM and developed a reputation as one of the most effective executives ever — while Skillings played a major role in destroying Enron and ended up in jail. Steve Jobs, for example, often relied less on market research than on his gut feel for what customers would want.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

When Jack Welch was CEO of GE, he famously tasked each business with achieving number 1 or number 2 status in its industry, a goal-setting principle that echoes across the decades. ABC and Acme appear to be doing quite well relative to the market: If you make a simple comparison, they’re around the 80 th percentile.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. What was so horrible about publicly traded companies that he’d consider being a CEO again, but only if he could avoid public markets? Are today’s investors really that horrible?

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

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

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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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

First, Applebee's waitress Chelsea Welch was fired for posting a photo on Reddit that showed a customer receipt inscribed with a anti-tipping (but pro-religion) message: "I give God 10%. We've just seen two spectacular stories of how employee dismissals can go dramatically awry in the era of social media. Why do you get 18?"

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Media PR Welch Policies 8

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. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Instead, it was to get their imprimatur: "You can say, I know the COO is probably not the right person to talk to, but who is your best salesperson, or your rock star marketing person? It''s an understatement to say most CEOs'' tomes don''t get the same reception as Jack Welch''s.) Finally, you have to be willing to seize opportunity.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate Welch 8

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Challenges for Mid-Market Companies. Unlike GE, mid-market companies generally don’t have 96 candidates in the succession planning process queue, and a seven year process may be overkill. At the same time, many mid-market companies often wait until it is too late to successfully identify and develop their next CEO.

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Development Critical Success Factor Leadership Development Collins 232

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. 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.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Then I met three people — a Dutch CEO, a Welch education expert and a German scientist — who saw things in a very different way. The marketing model changes. One is with executive education programs. But when you play it out, it just doesn't work. It still doesn't address the fundamental problem.

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