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What I Learned from Jack Welch

Next Level Blog

In case you’re not familiar with it, the Pit is the well at the bottom of an amphitheater style room that seats about a hundred people on GE’s Crotonville leadership development campus in the Hudson River Valley. You’ve probably read that Welch passed away this week at the age of 84. That was a big takeaway for me.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone. If you adapted to desktop computers, fax machines, cell phones and the Internet, then I suggest you need to view social media as the next progression on the continuim of advancement.

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English Football (Soccer) and Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

This year’s 2014 world Cup performance is no exception, despite all the marketing hype and social media frenzy. A rare exception to the “go outside for talent” mantra was General Electric under the reign of CEO Jack Welch. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.” ~Jack Welch. Why the perennial poor showing by England?

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Jack Welch the former head of GE built a reputation as one of the great chief executives of this era. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Possibility Maximizer: It's Everybody's Business with Jack & Suzy.

Sales Wolf Blog

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week | Main | The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week » November 12, 2010 Possibility Maximizer: Its Everybodys Business with Jack & Suzy Welch Happy Friday - I hope you have had a wonderful week so far!

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It's Just Good Business

CEO Blog

He talks about the power of purpose, the interdependence of business, and conscious leadership (doing good can be a choice). Karma411 is one of the Canrock Ventures investments that helps causes raise more money by using social media. The gist of Klein's message is "Do good and succeed in business". Klein talks about why.

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Leadership Lessons from Sparky Anderson

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Leadership Lessons from Sparky Anderson by Kevin Eikenberry on November 5, 2010 in Influence , Leadership , Learning I grew up like many men my age, a big baseball fan. Sparky died yesterday at age 76.