Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Bob Sutton, Harvard Business Review Blog : True Leaders Are Also Managers - Warren Bennis famously wrote that "Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who  do the right thing."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

It’s an established fact that the life cycles of companies and many products have been shrinking. In our opinion, culture is contextual, and what would have been appropriate in the 19 th century, when the company was a one-product, one-country organization, is very inappropriate in today’s far more globalized environment. (GE

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .  I cannot recommend highly enough that you head over and check it out for yourself!

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .  The editors at SmartBrief scour the internet newswires and blogosphere to track down the most important news and information that today's business leaders should be aware of.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility. License. .

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 30, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Our guests have embraced collaboration and innovation that impacts the way we all do business both now and in the future.  Saying that Bryan is involved in the HR profession is a bit of an understatement!

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   He is an excellent storyteller and has no problem communicating a clear and powerful message in these very short video segments.    Not big on online video?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2014

Contributing to the total $7 trillion in consumer and business spending in America, women influence 85% of all purchasing decisions, including half of products that would seem more oriented to men, such as automobiles, home improvement items, and consumer electronics. Recommended Resource – The Welch Way. trillion market.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 11, 2011

Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal Robert Simons Harvard Business School Press (1994) I read this book when it was first published in 1994 and recently re-read it, curious to see how well it has held up. My conclusion? Very well indeed. What I find especially noteworthy is [.].

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. ” The tension in the room was palpable.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Successful CEOs push managers to go uncomfortably beyond faithful retransmission: they want their leadership coming up with proverbs and parables to better preach the new gospel. She pushed product managers to present enhancements in UX, not just elevating customer satisfaction scores. But people aren’t parrots.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Middle managers had to go back and forth between firing people and finding new ones with different skills, and few people believed that the yearly planning and budgeting cycle was anything more than a painful exercise, since it was always changing midway through.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete. Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. We’re here to chat about Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes. We took it online, we built learning management systems to make it accessible. How do those innovative leaders actually help inspire that collaboration more often?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6 There were three problems in particular: The Board Was Too Big.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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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. This "too fast/too slow" leadership conundrum reeks of "Goldilocks" management — transformations and turnarounds should be neither too fast nor too slow; they must be "just right."

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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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. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

The worry," according to the Tech Review, "is that automated bots could be designed to significantly influence opinion" about such things as politics and products. A big selling point, the start-up hopes, is the energy-saving potential: If you’re a facilities manager, you can lower the temperature by 1 degree and see whether anyone reacts.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

This medium has been my preferred reading choice for a number of years now because it is extremely productive and time effective. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. I subscribe to these venues because I’m able to be “pushed” content that I’ve asked for in a medium that I enjoy.

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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. Senior management knew this was an issue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects. What are their secrets?

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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. If your culture and brand are mismatched, you can end up with happy, productive employees who produce the wrong results.

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CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). All Rights Reserved. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them. False Precision.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Of the many contributions Jack Welch has made to business wisdom, one of his most famous was “Be #1 or #2 in every market.” ” The first problem is it encourages managers to focus most of their attention on market share and not enough on the category itself. steven moore for hbr. many people use it much of the time).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback. Expert Coaching.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bravo Nando… Jack Welch - The former Chairman and CEO of GE reminded us of the value of candor. Candor, clarity, humility, passion and a heart for service characterize Jack Welch. Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? While they are focused on optimization, their shareholders continue to demand that they pay out greater dividends or engage in larger share buy backs instead of investing their profits for future innovation. Rule the World. ” -Ray Wang.

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