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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 Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

Change is a continuous and ongoing process. Jack Welch. Every organization experiences change, and it is during times of change that people often need to be reminded of and reconnected to the significance of the goals that they are working toward and the strengths of the people they are working with to achieve those goals.

Management 202

Management Senge Kotter Welch 202

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? In fact, 82 percent of the Best Companies for Leadership use rewards or reprimands that are based on rigorous measurements of performance against goals, compared to only 58 percent of all other companies. 85 percent. 55 percent. 84 percent. 62 percent.

Company 241

Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

Mike Cardus

MARCH 18, 2012

This is real work while your team is solving real problems and accomplishing real goals. The 7 Steps to High Performance Teams process is designed to take your team from where it is, to increased performance. This process makes your team better. "Our goal for team building was met, without question.”. -

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Team Team Building Project Welch 164

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. In our view, the fault nearly always lies in the company’s strategy execution process.

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Execution Strategy Succession Short-term 70

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, said, “When you were made a leader, you weren’t given a crown; you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.” They achieved their goal of increased sales and were pleasantly surprised by an unexpected ROI.” ” Find Anne on Twitter at @bizshrink.

Leadership Development 258

Leadership Development Development Leadership Emotional Intelligence 258

The Practical Leader

MAY 9, 2012

It’s centered around our five Key Implementation Steps featuring a customized Executive Retreat as central to the whole process. This is a major mistake and misunderstanding of the entire process. Vision, values, and mission need to reflect the executive team’s bone-deep beliefs, passions, and goals.

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Mission Statement Welch Webinar Bottom-up 58

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.

Succession 113

Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

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. They didn’t want to implement processes that prevented this.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Specifically, employees perceive the fairness of evaluation processes when they feel included and respected. When employees perceive fairness in the evaluation processes, they are more likely to accept their evaluations, in which case they will digest the information contained in the evaluations and motivate themselves accordingly.

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Performance Review Comparison Review Reference 15

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

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. Unconsciously they chose the latter.

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Welch Energy Banking Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

Wikipedia defines culture as "the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group." But how do you come to an agreement on those "shared" attitudes, values, goals, and practices ? Put teeth into the new culture by integrating it into HR processes.

Influence 15

Influence Welch Guidelines Goal 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 24, 2011

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Talent Management 85

Talent Management Management Review Analysis 85

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

Replace chronic underperformers after they’ve been given a fair chance to meet performance goals. Instead of job description we call it a job “scorecard” because first-year performance goals are spelled out. And even better yet, when this process is widely known, low performers will not apply.

How To 126

How To Reference Cost Case Study 126

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. After GE achieved its goal of being first or second in several of its businesses with exceptional margins, then-CEO Jack Welch faced the challenge of how to spur continued growth. Prime the Pump.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

When I passed his office and he wasn't there, I was sure that he was meeting with Jack Welch or someone famous. I'm sure you are asking why I didn't just walk to my office the other direction so I didn't have to begin the process of comparing? The process of comparing requires us to keep making our target more difficult to hit.

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Merton Black-Scholes Welch Organizational Behavior 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

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. Here’s a version of it from a couple of years into the process, which started in 2006.)

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

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. The hard part is executing the idea to build a business, which takes a process that actually works.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

While this process does help to leverage a leader''s time, it also has its dark side — it shields the senior executive from direct contact with many of the issues, dynamics, and ideas that are percolating throughout the organization. As a senior leader, breaking through this pattern is not easy.

Execution 8

Execution Middle Management Welch CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, Fred "the shred" Goodwin, and "Neutron" Jack Welch were all famous for losing their cool. If you are brave, ask your own team to rate you, as a one-off exercise or as part of a broader 360-degree assessment process. Wrath doesn't need a whole lot of explanation.

Management 16

Management Gordon Welch Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It’s an evolutionary process — one that, if repeated enough times under exactly the same circumstances might lead to an optimal result but under more realistic conditions is more likely to oscillate between different norms/conventions/equilibria. Their districts tend to be pretty safely Republican, so their jobs aren’t at risk.

Game Theory 11

Game Theory Politics Proposal Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This all starts with thinking carefully about how employees are motivated, and how you can have the right reward systems in place to achieve your desired goal. Five years ago, Jack Welch famously stated that there are three fundamental ways to motivate employees: financial rewards, recognition, and a clear mission.

Team 10

Team Welch Motivation Metrics 10

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

They will jump in and work side by side with staff to meet goals, encouraging and lifting spirits. These gentlemen do what great leaders do. They will with out a second thought put themselves in front of the bus if needed. They are not status takers or neck breakers, they are leaders and these are the type of people I want on my projects.

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Leadership Engineering Welch Collins 180