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

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Every marketer knows that people want more good things — good products, experiences, and ideas — and fewer bad ones. You can more effectively market a product if you tailor your message to fit the motivational focus of the product or the audience you are aiming for.

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Motivation Productivity Products Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As companies thinned out, those leadership positions disappeared — and most haven't come back since. Jack Welch laid off thousands, "de-layering," as some people called it. It doesn't help that managers are predisposed to keep the best employees in their current positions, which promotes stability in an organization.

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Career Welch Information Technology Training 16

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. He and two other economists created the trading process called Black-Scholes that impacted the ways financial markets were informed and influenced. Mind you, this happened almost every day. You see the problem.

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Merton Black-Scholes Welch Organizational Behavior 14

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Think of the business leaders that have had the biggest positive impact in your life, and I’m sure you’ll find that these individuals were in constant search of new and better information. They use the information acquired through reading in order to inspire, motivate, and lead those around them.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In the 20th century, a select group of leaders — General Motor's Alfred Sloan, HP's David Packard and Bill Hewlett, and GE's Jack Welch — set the standard for the way corporations are run. As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Report Human Resources Open-book Advertising 124

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If you were entering the job market in the early 90s, most job descriptions included “Macintosh experience” or “excellent PC skills” in their preferred qualifications. Unlike Welch’s 41-year tenure at GE, today’s employees are expected to hold an average of 10 jobs before the age of 40.

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Team Welch Motivation Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. And your sales and marketing departments aren’t working at cross-purposes, each with its own view of what success looks like.

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Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Is there a way to be transparent about a CEO being coached without causing shareholder and market panic? Done in an open and honest manner, this type of disclosure can have a very positive impact on reputation, motivation, and performance in an organization. Coaching is a private and personal activity.

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CEO Survey Charan Welch 13

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

Now, Mr. Page is assuming the CEO position. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. Many-market organization. Even when there appears to be a single voice, that person is informed by the filtered information that rises up from the expertise below. Single market.

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Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130