Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2019

Regardless of their own levels of expertise, effective leaders possess a POV for how their field ought to operate and the right way to perform essential tasks. An unfortunate trap execution-focused leaders can fall into is believing (either consciously or unconsciously) that people are a means to an end. People Matter.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? Those companies that simultaneously execute on immediate priorities while aligning their employees with a shared sense of purpose, and develop leaders at all levels to contribute and act on innovative ideas, have a better chance at financial success.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I’ve recently had the opportunity to help design a brand-new open-enrollment Woman’s Leadership Development Program to be offered through the University of New Hampshire’s Executive Development Program. Younger woman in particular, who may not have experienced blatant discrimination, will say the glass ceiling has been broken.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. Let’s take the 1990s.

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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. Why is that?

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

 Numerous forecasting models are based off economic indicators like the Consumer Confidence Index and it is critical that you follow and understand how these leading indicators relate to your organization's operations.  However, The Conference Board does much more than just report on leading economic indicators.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Heather McCulligh , Halogen Software Talent Management Blog : Why You Need a Strong Talent Bench - Most leaders and executives would strongly agree that an executive succession plan is critical to an organization's continued success.   Watch the video here , or feel free to download the PDF transcript.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In addition, executives are investing more time in succession management activities. When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably. As Jack Welch said Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. About $3,750 per HIPO annually.

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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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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. 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. By Daniel H.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

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. link] gunnar Mike, these are great observations and so true. Thanks for sharing! admin Hi Gunnar: My pleasure Sir…thanks for stopping by. Nicely done Mike!

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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. Sometimes they’re executives, you know, people in the trenches doing it. That’s it!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Happily though, the era of shareholder value maximization , which arguably started in the early 1980s when Jack Welch pronounced that General Electric’s primary purpose was to maximize returns for its investors, seems to be reaching its final days. When these are in sync with the creation of customer value, beautiful things will happen.

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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. But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Prime the Pump.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Maybe that is because of more public scrutiny and the operation of social media. O'Reilly's research on narcissism among Silicon Valley executives shows that narcissistic CEOs earn more, last in their jobs longer, and also have a larger gap between their pay and the pay of their senior team.

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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. 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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

As we in the United States juggle major structural and operational changes and try to secure our financial systems as revenues fall, we must keep our promise of safety and high quality to every patient, every time. This is a familiar and understandable concern and is usually the number one agenda item in many executive offices.

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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. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

That''s why Elizabeth started out one notch lower, with the office of the Chief Operating Officer, "because that secretary knows everybody," she says. It''s an understatement to say most CEOs'' tomes don''t get the same reception as Jack Welch''s.) The CEO — the public face of the company — is bombarded with requests.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Former GE CEO Jack Welch, writing in Business Week , characterized the nonprofit sector as a "foreign land" in which performance is not a priority and employees are guaranteed "lifetime employment." Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, wrote last year on the Wired web site, "Let's be real: The nonprofit model is broken.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Or do you believe that this is an unattainable, unaffordable goal in view of the financial and operational challenges your organization currently faces? People in executive positions are more likely than those at the bottom to feel they’d be rewarded, or at least not punished, for raising uncomfortable issues.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

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. Winning is the biggest force multiplier that a leader has. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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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.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Within two years after becoming chief executive of General Electric in 1981, Jack Welch completed one of his most far-reaching initiatives: reducing the number of GE business units from about 150 to 15. But very few conglomerates are set up to embrace this sort of abrupt shift of direction, and it takes a long time to execute.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The days when we could simply plan and execute are long gone. As Jack Welch put it, “the books got thicker, the printing got more sophisticated, the covers got harder and the drawing got better,” but none of that improved how enterprises performed. This has never been the case.”. Here, he is on much stronger ground.

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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. But that hasn't been the case at Danaher, DuPont, and Staples, which have continually improved their operations over many years, to the delight of their customers.

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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

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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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

The gist of the switch was from a triad of three executive peers to a more centralized single top dog. With legislation allowing stockholder voting on executive compensation, top-level management might be wondering if the shift toward consolidating responsibility might be the coming trend. Now, Mr. Page is assuming the CEO position.

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Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history.

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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. He spared us the business speak and rhetoric and said things that all leaders needed to hear.

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