CO2

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? It’s hard for CEOs to improve their leadership because they rarely get candid feedback from their subordinates who fear possible retribution. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably.

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Leadership Agility Leadership Pipeline Welch 392

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. First and foremost, your senior leadership has to be on the same page with a crisp and clear long term vision. This is a haphazard way to operate. The caveat is to avoid the disruption of current operations.

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Execution Strategy Succession Short-term 70

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

 This podcast will help you to better understand how these changes in the CDC's immunization recommendations can reduce the prevalence of flu related absences and also offers some great advice for steps your organization can take to increase the percentage of employee team members who are vaccinated. 

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System Human Resources Presenteeism Blog 167

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Larger companies are often owned by shareholders who are removed from day-to-day operations of the company and therefore more likely to demand performance accountability from the management. Instead, the role of HR is held as one of several tasks by a senior team member who takes risks without realizing they are taking risks.

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Company Human Resources Emotional Intelligence Welch 140

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.  Enjoy! .

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Leadership: Building Success - In the latest installment to his Little Big Things series, Tom shares a great lesson learned from RE/MAX founder Dave Liniger about the importance of working to help make your team members wildly successful in order to best serve the customer.  Enjoy! . Tom Peters!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Special Edition 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership examines what it takes to achieve real and meaningful organizational change in a way that improves overall performance and ultimately enhances the bottom line. Randy’s book, Transformational Leadership , can be purchased by clicking here.

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

But when an entire team faces a deadline together and is highly motivated to accelerate progress, "Christmas miracles" such as those I witnessed at J.P. Within days the data collection and reconciliation process returned to normal, so that by the end of the month the team was again struggling to get everything done.

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Welch Energy Banking Conference 15

LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

SHAWN: I’m Shawn Hunter, and well, what I do, my day job is I’m an executive producer for Leadership Solutions, for Skillsoft, and so to that end, I travel around the world with colleagues, and we track down really interesting people. People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. That’s it!

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Chief Operating Officer Innovation Learning-by-Doing Books 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Maybe that is because of more public scrutiny and the operation of social media. O'Reilly's research on narcissism among Silicon Valley executives shows that narcissistic CEOs earn more, last in their jobs longer, and also have a larger gap between their pay and the pay of their senior team.

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Welch COO Constraint CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

When working with peers, in and across teams, work to understand each person's frame of reference—where they are coming from. But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Not only were costs cut, but operations became more focused and simplified.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. What team could I help build? Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in.

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Stephen R.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Running a country calls for a sophisticated array of leadership skills — from shaping strategy to building a team to managing day-to-day operations. But whether we're talking about Romney or not, it's important to question whether consulting is good preparation for leadership.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

As we in the United States juggle major structural and operational changes and try to secure our financial systems as revenues fall, we must keep our promise of safety and high quality to every patient, every time. I offer three recommendations to ensure that we keep these promises to those who depend on our leadership.

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Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

How can you accept the responsibility to develop a team if you’re not developing yourself? It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Terry Starbucker

MAY 10, 2015

At the time I was also a corporate Senior Vice President of Operations trying to hone my craft as a leader, but for those first few months I really hadn’t been motivated to write too much about that, especially since I intentionally used a fake name (yes, that’s where Starbucker came from! “, by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones.

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Welch Leadership Review Learning-by-Doing 150

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.

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Books Executive Coaching Welch Consultative 102

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.

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Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. Like conglomerates, Alibaba’s businesses have separate boards, and even separate technology teams and platforms.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 13