Steve Farber

JANUARY 9, 2017

Technology. A recent study by Korn Ferry found that 63 percent of the 800 leaders they interviewed said technology will be their firm’s greatest source of competitive advantage within five years. And 67 percent said technology will create greater value in the future than people. Technology is important.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: Monster Thinkings 5 for Friday | Main | Possibility Maximizer: Its Everybodys Business with Jack & Suzy Welch » November 08, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week Happy Monday!

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

  The Hewitt webcast series covers hot HR issues such as employee pay and benefits, performance management, executive compensation, HR outsourcing (BPO), HR technology, and scores of other topics important to today's human resources professional. 

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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!  Enjoy!

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Cathy Missildine-Martin, Profitability Through Human Capital : 7 Ways HR Can Lead Strategy Execution - Strategy is arguably one of the more exciting and captivating elements of leadership and management.  However, strategy is little more than glorified daydreaming if it lacks proper execution.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Brad Smart, Topgrading Blog : What A Player Executives Read - Ask almost any high level, top performing leader or executive, and you will likely find they devote a considerable amount of time and effort reading books, magazines, and trade publications to advance their own professional development.

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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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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

  Lorrie Lykins,  Institute For Corporate Productivity Trendwatcher : Strategies of Successful HR Executives - Ever wondered what it is that makes those uniquely effective and influential HR executives as successful as they are.    So have the folks at I4CP.    So have the folks at I4CP. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Tim Tolan, Fistful of Talent : 2011: Implementing the NO IDIOT RULE Krista Ogburn Francis, Alive HR : To Resolve or Not to Resolve Ben Eubanks, UpstartHR : Put up or Shut up.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. 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!

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Institute for Corporate Productivity : Study Shows Leaders with Low Emotional Intelligence Might be Depressing Bottom Line Results - The I4CP released a great study on the role that emotional intelligence among top executives plays in the performance of the organizations they lead.  Check it out for some eye opening results. 

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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. With exponential technologies, multi-Generations at the workplace, new off-industry competitors challenging incumbents, the Covid-19 New Reality…. As Jack Welch said Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

Dan McCarthy, Great Leadership : Leadership Development Executive Self-Assessment : Most managers and leaders are quick to agree that succession planning and employee development are important for continued organizational success.  To help you attract the best talent possible, John has six great tips for becoming an employer of choice.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

Eric Pennington presents Situational Mentoring posted at Epic Living - Leadership Development Career Management Training Executive Life Coaching Author where he illustrates the importance of finding the right type of mentor for your specific need and how to avoid the perils of engaging in the wrong type of mentoring relationship.

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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. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Serious chief executives explicitly redefine the key words organizations use to explain themselves. Welch, says Lane, ruthlessly and relentlessly reviewed ever senior level presentation his top team made there. Welch, says Lane, ruthlessly and relentlessly reviewed ever senior level presentation his top team made there.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Jack Welch laid off thousands, "de-layering," as some people called it. For example, I once worked with Heidi, a medical assistant, who was charged with scheduling training for a new technology at a major hospital. It wasn't long before she was promoted and given the opportunity of a career in information technology.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

According to a survey of Fortune 1,000 companies done by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), 66% of the employees were strongly dissatisfied with the performance evaluations they received in their organizations. HBR STAFF/Schreiber Sons/nypl. People hate performance evaluations. They really do.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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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. Directness. Pragmatism.

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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. 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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. Social Media is not about technology – it’s about communication. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. What’s the ROI on a handshake?

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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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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

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. No one wants to lease a phone, if you ask them that way, but if you position it that they will get a new phone with the latest technology every year, the value proposition gets more compelling.

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Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

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

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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team. Although he didn’t have a U.S.

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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. Our communications technologies have dramatically improved, and we have instantaneous access to massive amounts of information. 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

JULY 19, 2011

Not long ago I sat in on a meeting of the executive leadership team for a global technology company. There was only one problem: None of the other executives had seen those slides before; they had been created by the CEO's strategy director only a couple of days prior to the meeting. The meeting then proceeded from there.

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Self-aware Welch Long-term CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The days when we could simply plan and execute are long gone. Technology cycles have begun to outplace planning cycles. 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.

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Strategy Uncertainty Welch Rogers 8

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

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. Welch Leadership Center at Crotonville where leaders from other organizations (e.g.,

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