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? Aligning on a clear nomenclature within a strategic planning session, for example, on what we mean by “goal,” “objective,” or “initiative” is critical. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 23, 2019

I love this quote from Jack Welch: “When you’re a contributor you try to have all the answers. I like to ask this question quarterly to help plan our goals and objectives for the upcoming season.). When you’re a leader, your job is to have all the questions.” ” Great leaders ask great questions.

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Welch Leadership Project Objective 46

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? In times of rapid change, many companies lose their focus, failing to adequately engage and enable their current workforces as the organizations shift to achieve short-term or immediate objectives,” added Lash.

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Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

Allow the persons in the audience to take charge of directing the conversation by asking questions, making comments, raising objections to seek additional information. Bill Lane: Jacked Up: The Inside Story of How Jack Welch Talked GE into Becoming the Worlds Greatest Company. Memorize Your Start and Finish. www.SalesTip.info. . .

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Skills How To Audience Welch 169

Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

That is All Jesse Harriot, Monster Thinking : 2011 Job Market Trends HR Introvert : Time for Due Diligence on Personal Objectivity Tim Sanders, Sanders Says : Three Lists to Make for 2011 Rachel Suff, XpertHR : New Year's Resolution: Boost Poor Performance?

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Blog Ingham Human Capital Human Resources 200

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

 Don't miss this great podcast where Wally and Wayne talk about ways to keep your team focused on key business objectives.  Don't miss this great podcast where Wally and Wayne talk about ways to keep your team focused on key business objectives.

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Blog Middle Management Talent Management Human Resources 157

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 20, 2016

I love this quote from Jack Welch: “When you’re a contributor you try to have all the answers. I like to ask this question quarterly to help plan our goals and objectives for the upcoming season.). When you’re a leader, your job is to have all the questions.” ” Great leaders ask great questions.

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Welch Leadership Edmondson Project 30

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

 Ever the fan of simplicity, Charlie has a great approach to goal setting that is as easy as 1+3: decide on the goal/objective that needs to be accomplished and identify three key results that provide evidence of its success.   Amy Wilson, TalentedApps : Are You a Knowledge Hoarder?

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Welch 154

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

While I’m not going to deny that social media brings with it new tools, platforms and communication channels, I vehemently object to the premise that you need to morph into an uber geek or communications savant to learn to use them and to reap their many benefits. Thanks for the great insights Rob. Thanks for sharing! Nicely done Mike!

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Objectivity and detachment: In difficult situations, consultants need to stay objective and go where the data leads them. Leaders also have to maintain objectivity and make tough calls that can negatively affect people — but do so with a genuine sense of compassion.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

When I passed his office and he wasn't there, I was sure that he was meeting with Jack Welch or someone famous. Throughout history, our greatest generals, CEOs, lawyers, and other professionals have driven themselves to achieve significant objectives by trying to outdo others. Mind you, this happened almost every day.

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Merton Black-Scholes Welch Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Former GE CEO Jack Welch, writing in Business Week , characterized the nonprofit sector as a "foreign land" in which performance is not a priority and employees are guaranteed "lifetime employment." Many crucial objectives simply cannot be accomplished while generating a financial return.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

In order to properly align its incentives to support its mission and objectives, a company must determine what managers and employees believe they are being encouraged to do and not do. At GE, Jack Welch sincerely wanted to hear the truth — he hated it when people brought him sugar-coated information.

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Incentives Performance Review Welch Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In well-managed businesses, there are clear feedback mechanisms to ensure that the bottom of the talent pack gets managed out efficiently and objectively. While at GE, Jack Welch popularized the notion that it was good to fire the "bottom 10" of his managers every year.

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Bottom-up Performance Review Mentor Welch 13

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 11, 2010

  But how do we objectively know when a manager is mismanaging talent?   But how do we objectively know when a manager is mismanaging talent?   How often does the manager get the blame for mismanaging the performance potential of an employee team member? Managers do mismanage.    Often. 

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Management Human Resources Sports Benchmarking 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

This process takes corporate strategic objectives and translates them into subsidiary process performance objectives, and then down to actions required of functions, departments, and even front-line workers. In 1999, CEO Chad Holliday talked with Larry Bossidy and Jack Welch at GE, and decided to launch a Six Sigma program.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Martin’s first objection is what he sees as an obsession with VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity). As Jack Welch put it, “the books got thicker, the printing got more sophisticated, the covers got harder and the drawing got better,” but none of that improved how enterprises performed.

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Strategy Uncertainty Welch Rogers 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Jack Welch had it right: you should continually subtract out the bottom 10% of your team. objective and regular), people will respect and embrace what may at first feel a little cold and Darwinian. A simple story that repeats a consistent theme is better than a truckload of documents and demos. Subtract Your People.

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Power Document Self-aware Welch 10

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Jack Welch has a Ph.D. But it’s a problem when we deploy it at the service of objectives that are not worth the effort. We apply these behavioral criteria to almost any successful person – whether it’s a CEO or a plumber. I’m not disparaging competitiveness.

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Skills CFO Cost-Benefit Analysis Welch 114

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2011

Jack Welch has a Ph.D. But it's a problem when we deploy it at the service of objectives that are not worth the effort. We apply these behavioral criteria to almost any successful person-- whether it's a CEO or a plumber. I'm not disparaging competitiveness. Winning too much underlies nearly every other behavioral problem.

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Skills CFO Cost-Benefit Analysis Welch 123

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It appears that, when it comes to rating someone else, our own strengths, skills, and biases get in the way and we end up rating the person not on some wonderfully objective scale, but on our own scale. They look like objective data. If she does, her rating is high; if she doesn’t, it is low. But they aren’t.

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Management System Learning-by-Doing Welch 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

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. Much like Welch’s famed “#1 or #2” objective for each of this businesses, Alibaba’s governance inspired its subsidiaries to be the leaders of their respective industries.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 14

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

” -Jack Welch. Foundational attributes include decision making, demeanor, goals and objectives, policy and actions, motivational approach, performance expectations, and execution style. “Companies win by getting bigger and ultimately dominating industries.” Leaders must take a dynamic approach to leadership.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131