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. Improve productivity, Enhance the bottom line… StrategyDriven Premium Subscriber Login Align Your Organization and Become StrategyDriven!

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. They play well as a team.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Steve Farber

MARCH 26, 2014

He has orchestrated the upcoming leadership summit with creativity and productivity as central themes of the conference. Farber claims that these principles of leadership can “dramatically improve the creativity and productivity in any organization—and that includes a healthier bottom line.

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Press Release Simon Magazine Participative 71

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

No one who listens to Alan Mulally describe Ford’s remarkable turnaround escapes his rendition of One Ford , One Team , and Working Together. She pushed product managers to present enhancements in UX, not just elevating customer satisfaction scores. “Those are more than just words,” he passionately declared.

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CEO Welch Health Care Innovation 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

APRIL 26, 2016

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. What team could I help build? ” He continued, “let’s not launch Product X version 2 and instead focus all our efforts on Product Y.” We must ask ourselves, what idea can I bring to life?

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

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. When you truly understand the perspective of others, you are most likely to reach productive solutions; further, all the participants will feel heard, whether their solution is adopted or not.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Donald Hambrick, a guru on CEOs and top teams, argues that long-tenured CEOs tend to grow “stale in the saddle”, ceasing to make adaptive changes. So it’s consistent with market forces. Yes there are exceptions — Steve Jobs and Jack Welch leap to mind. Consider: the average tenure of a Fortune 500 CEO is about 4.6

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CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 13

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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. What was so horrible about publicly traded companies that he’d consider being a CEO again, but only if he could avoid public markets? Are today’s investors really that horrible? Short answer: no.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

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. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. How can each of these principles be applied to building data skills across teams? Insight Center.

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Team Welch Motivation Metrics 10

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

How can you accept the responsibility to develop a team if you’re not developing yourself? 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. Put simply, if you’re not learning you have no business leading.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

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. This was delaying product production.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Within two years after becoming chief executive of General Electric in 1981, Jack Welch completed one of his most far-reaching initiatives: reducing the number of GE business units from about 150 to 15. In effect, Welch set out to focus the company on the businesses where it had the potential for greatness, and to jettison everything else.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

Even politicians these days use books as part of their own marketing campaign and messaging strategies. She supports first-time and seasoned authors in their book writing, publishing and marketing endeavors through coaching and training in her “Your Book Is Your Hook!” consulting practice. www.YourBookIsYourHook.com By Jennifer S.

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Books Executive Coaching Welch Consultative 102

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. 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." Many-market organization.

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Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113