Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Wally Bock, Three Star Leadership : Simple Leadership Basics - Leadership is a discipline awash in thousands of books, articles, videos, and white papers attempting to find and share the secrets to being an effective leader.  Wally suggests keeping it simple and focusing on the basics.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About the Authors Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership , is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

What are you so busy doing that you don’t have time to build better relationships with precisely those individuals and groups who can help you achieve your goals and objectives? link] Lisa Welch Hi Mike: Thanks for taking something so confusing and adding clarity by doing little more than telling the truth. Thanks for sharing!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

The changeover to a new calendar year, coinciding with the return of many from holiday breaks, is a perfect opportunity to reflect on what was learned during the past year; set exciting stretch goals for the year ahead; and start taking actions to achieve those goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Not only were costs cut, but operations became more focused and simplified. Consider Ivan Seidenberg, who rose to become Chairman and CEO of Verizon. Prime the Pump.

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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. Maybe that is because of more public scrutiny and the operation of social media.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

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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. General Electric Operations' GE is an icon of management best practices. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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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." I'd suggest three practical questions to ask in sorting through how to achieve important social goals.

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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? At GE, Jack Welch sincerely wanted to hear the truth — he hated it when people brought him sugar-coated information. But even at the top, it can be difficult to speak up.

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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. Her goal wasn''t actually to score an interview with the COO, which was probably unlikely. The CEO — the public face of the company — is bombarded with requests.

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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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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. Jack Welch is quoted as saying, "What sets GE apart is a culture that uses diversity as a limitless source of learning opportunities, a storehouse of ideas whose breadth and richness is unmatched in world business." GE and HCL. Many-market organization.

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