CO2

JULY 25, 2023

They bulldoze their plans through and others, who weren’t consulted, wind up resisting them — no surprise there. general Jack Chain who was responsible for the country’s nuclear arsenals, to Jack Welch, former CEO of G.E. Judge) Explore new ideas in order to frame a situation, such as, “What should be our goal?

Leadership 78

Leadership Welch Bottom-up Innovation 78

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

J EFFREY IMMELT took over General Electric from Jack Welch at a time of increasing instability. The goal is to give up control to allow the change to be internalized in them. I subscribe to the words of the great philosopher Mike Tyson, who said, ‘Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.' Lesson Four: Be all in.

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Welch How To Long-term Objective 175

Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. They’re tasked with achieving bottom-line results, and they don’t see talent development as a measurable goal. Thus, smart organizations create succession plans that include training and mentoring in how to support employees in their development.

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Development Seminar Mentor Workshop 156

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Aligning on a clear nomenclature within a strategic planning session, for example, on what we mean by “goal,” “objective,” or “initiative” is critical. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Aligning on a clear nomenclature within a strategic planning session, for example, on what we mean by “goal,” “objective,” or “initiative” is critical. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Aligning on a clear nomenclature within a strategic planning session, for example, on what we mean by “goal,” “objective,” or “initiative” is critical. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It's been an awesome ride and I plan to keep doing it until I run out of ideas or ambition, whichever comes first. Managers work toward goals, ideals, and outcomes--that others largely have set or prescribed. Jack Welch's determination to get the right mix and then play only in games he could win created enormous wealth.

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Management Welch McCarthy Organizational Behavior 231

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve seen many successful mentoring pairs create joint learning opportunities, where they identify a book or a course that they take together, discuss their insights, and plan how to apply their learning. At its heart, mentoring is a learning relationship, in which mentors and mentees learn about themselves and their mentoring partner.

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Mentor How To Welch Learning-by-Doing 93

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. If you’re like most companies, odds are you have no problem coming up with worthy long term goals and basic plans for achieving them. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Identify the Gaps. Build a Change Map.

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Execution Strategy Succession Short-term 70

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 23, 2019

I love this quote from Jack Welch: “When you’re a contributor you try to have all the answers. I like to ask this question quarterly to help plan our goals and objectives for the upcoming season.). When you’re a leader, your job is to have all the questions.” ” Great leaders ask great questions.

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Welch Leadership Project Objective 46

Mike Cardus

MARCH 18, 2012

This is real work while your team is solving real problems and accomplishing real goals. People on teams NEED to see the connection of the teams, their own, and the organizations goals for the work to be valued, and accomplished within quality and time specifications. "Our goal for team building was met, without question.”. -

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Team Team Building Project Welch 164

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Charlie Judy, HR Fishbowl : Goal-Setting is as Easy as 1 + 3 - For many organizations it is time for performance reviews and setting goals for the coming year.  Sadly goal setting is something that many organizations and managers do quite poorly by making it out to be much harder and more complex than necessary.

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Emotional Intelligence 154

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

On the other, you can strive for a manageable goal and pretty much guarantee that you’ll achieve it. The managers responsible for meeting budget goals argue to their bosses that the targets should be set lower — competition is tough, the economy is slowing, the distribution channel is turbulent, and so on. Think about it.

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Planning Strategy Strategic Planning Welch 12

Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Whenever I hold a strategic planning session, the first value that all the executives agree on is integrity. Jack Welch calls it “candor.” To learn how to form great habits that will lead you to success, take a look at my recent post 7 Goal Oriented Habits Of Successful People. Leaders stand up for what they believe in.

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Welch Chemicals Open-book Strategic Planning 92

Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Resource:    Stephen R Covey - The Community What it is:  Stephen Covey's The Community  is a collaborative online learning community that helps users to grow personally and professionally by setting and realizing their life goals. Covey Community does.  Empowering is the key word to focus on.

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Covey Human Resources Open-book Blog 124

Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

 Today I would like to shift gears and take a look ahead at what the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogging community sees in store for us in 2011.  Below is a great collection of posts containing predictions, resolutions, trends, and thoughts for 2011.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

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Blog Ingham Human Capital Human Resources 200

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Gretchen's goal for The Happiness Project was to not only increase her own level of happiness, but also help others find greater happiness in their own lives. Gretchen's goal for The Happiness Project was to not only increase her own level of happiness, but also help others find greater happiness in their own lives.

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Project Human Resources Blog Resources 140

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 20, 2016

I love this quote from Jack Welch: “When you’re a contributor you try to have all the answers. I like to ask this question quarterly to help plan our goals and objectives for the upcoming season.). When you’re a leader, your job is to have all the questions.” ” Great leaders ask great questions.

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Welch Leadership Edmondson Project 30

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Resource: American Express OPEN Forum What It Is:   Open Forum is an online community sponsored by American Express where small business owners come together to network, share ideas and information, and work together towards the common goal of being more effective and successful business leaders.

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Open-book Human Resources Blog Resources 145

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 10, 2010

  Attributes such as Personal Accountability, High Empathetic Outlook, Results Orientation, Self Management, Interpersonal Skills, Goal Achievement, Customer Focus, Self Direction, Personal Drive, Persistence, and Initiative. Can one interview candidates to identify Behaviors, Values, and Attributes? 

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Critical Success Factor Succession Human Resources Blog 181

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Tim Sanders, Sanders Says : The Performance Value of Total Concentration - For many of us life is a constant struggle to balance the many goals, deadlines, and obligations we face on a daily basis.  The folks at Knowledge@Wharton examine some reasons why comparing employees to their peers can backfire.

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Blog Human Resources Emotional Intelligence Welch 140

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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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Jack Welch had some of it, but the sports coaches were a law unto themselves. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! They had a no-nonsense integrity that is often lost in the slickness of modern business.

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Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Workshop 190

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 2, 2010

  Sales reps are under constant pressure to meet their sales goals in order to placate stockholders who demand results in quarter-year intervals.  Not   Not surprisingly, compensation plans for sales reps encourage and reward short term performance.  Given

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Short-term 100

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

How would you inspire people to work together for a certain goal? How would you inspire people to work together for a certain goal? posted at Job Interview & Career Guide , saying that as it can be hard to motivate yourself, motivating others can be even harder.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 224

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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.

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

And you’d be less willing to run again next week since you would no longer trust that your boss had a real plan. 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.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Leaders, who feel the need to compare themselves with leaders held up in public as great business leaders, such as Jack Welch or Sam Walton, are doing themselves a disservice. Once you understand yourself as a leader, your leadership brand, then you can determine whether you want to make changes as a leader and develop a plan to get there.

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Brand Leadership Leadership Styles Welch 237

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Yet somehow this same process in the month of December — when many employees were planning to take time off between Christmas and New Year's Day — was so much more efficient that a skeleton staff was able to finish the month without any problems.

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Welch Energy Banking Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

But she knew that if she didn’t do something, the team might not hit its goals. Applying these principles means that you have to be, in the words of Jack Welch, hardheaded and softhearted. You have to prioritize the team achieving its goals and everyone performing at the required level.

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Team How To Welch Morale 8

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. And there are indications now that Palmisano’s strategic plan and its focus on earnings-per-share gains may have eventually become counterproductive.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Her goal wasn''t actually to score an interview with the COO, which was probably unlikely. Says Elizabeth, "If they have a book, read it, because no one writes these people and says ''I read your book.''" (It''s an understatement to say most CEOs'' tomes don''t get the same reception as Jack Welch''s.)

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COO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Some people tend to see their goals as opportunities for gain or advancement. Others tend to see their goals as opportunities to avoid loss and to stay safe. Prevention-focused people are more risk-averse, but their work is also more thorough, accurate, and carefully planned. Mismatch, and your message falls flat.

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Motivation Productivity Products Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

For example, during CEO Mary Barra’s testimony in Washington, few lawmakers seemed interested in exactly how GM plans to change its processes, and Barra, while acknowledging that the company needs to improve safety procedures, made it clear that the company won’t share the data from its internal investigation of ignition-switch defects.

Incentives 8

Incentives Performance Review Welch Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

As a result, her team had spent a great deal of time sharpening their plans and identifying specific ways that the CEO could help to advance them. Now at the last minute — on the way to the forum — this advisor was telling her to back off. As a senior leader, breaking through this pattern is not easy.

Execution 8

Execution Middle Management Welch CEO 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. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 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