Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” ” Nadella was sending a clear message to look past the “sacred cows” of the organization and pursue an agenda of innovation over orthodoxy.

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

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. This was delaying product production.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Leaders have to place strategic changes, initiatives, and goals into a broader organizational context, or they risk losing good talent, burning out managers, and wasting money on programs that don’t pay off. People have to see why what they’re doing has to change, why they should suddenly be moving in a new direction.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

They are more action-oriented, pursue their own goals, and exhibit disinhibited behavior in part because they believe that rules don't apply to them; they are special and invulnerable. There is a simple power story often told about such behavior: research shows that people with more power tend to pay less attention to others.

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Welch COO Constraint CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. Auto industry Leading teams'

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 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. 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

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. Electrolux CEO Keith McLoughlin has declared that new product prototypes have to enjoy at least a 70% customer preference rate in blind competition with best-selling rival products.

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Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

At best, they serve other goals: allocating compensation fairly, and aligning each individual’s goals with the values and strategies of the company. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them.

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Management System Learning-by-Doing Welch 11