Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 6, 2010

David Deal, Superhype : When a Superstar Leaves Your Company - David Deal, the VP of Marketing for Razorfish, has a great post responding to his organization's recent loss of social media guru Shiv Singh and how a company should react when it loses a widely acclaimed thought leader.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.] Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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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. By stark contrast, IBM's Lou Gerstner practiced a cultivated deliberateness in his successful turnaround: Slow and steady won his leadership race. That's a mug's game.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

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. Never confuse charisma with leadership. In the 21st century only IBM's Sam Palmisano has done so. They listen as well as they speak.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be.

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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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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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CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

The difference between you and them is that they get more gigs, are noticed more by the media and have more opportunities than you do if you don’t have a book. Even politicians these days use books as part of their own marketing campaign and messaging strategies. Which one are you? on WomensRadio. consulting practice.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

This “Moneyball for leadership” approach showed that much of the conventional wisdom about what it takes to become a CEO and succeed is wrong. Question : What do prevailing stereotypes about leadership get wrong? And hiring or holding onto the wrong CEOs costs shareholders an estimated $112 billion in lost market value every year.

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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. We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing.

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