N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

As a leader how can you make good decisions, set the vision and model behavior for something you don’t understand or participate in? I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people. Well, most people were already around 150 before social media arrived.

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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. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. There were three problems in particular: The Board Was Too Big.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

While participating in meaningful work and helping others is important to me, serving my family is what I dedicate my life to. I read that "don't ask an unconscious patient to participate as an active partner in the treatment" I don’t regret my work because I try to save other from some bad scenario.

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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. They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. But they need to figure out what to tune out — and learn to manage Wall Street rather than being managed by it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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