Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Jack Welch.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

However, true culture turnaround requires a complete psychological shift across the entire organization. It is relatively easy for new organizations to start with a clean sheet of paper in creating a culture. But for organizations that have been around for a while, the shift involves quite a bit of shedding and rewiring.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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System Human Resources Presenteeism Blog 167

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

From the authors: “ We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of woman leaders. That way, both the individual AND the sponsoring organization gets a good ROI. Decide who the audience should be and be selective.

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Leadership Development Development Committee Leadership 249

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. Combined, would the organization save 2 hours? Or, would 2 workers each saving $100 save their organization $200 overall. Their efforts are interdependent.”.

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Deming Welch System Open-book 28

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." Focused service-based organizations.

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Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. This is a haphazard way to operate. The caveat is to avoid the disruption of current operations. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it.

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Execution Strategy Succession Short-term 70

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports. Why is that?

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Skills How To Audience Welch 169

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Company Human Resources Emotional Intelligence Welch 140

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In our meetings with CEOs and HR directors, it is evident there is a growing concern within organizations needing to strengthen current leaders and support the bench of the future ones. When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably. How do they affect Leadership?

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Leadership Agility Leadership Pipeline Welch 392

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Emotional Intelligence 100

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Human Resources Blog Emotional Intelligence Welch 100

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room. Who are these people? Popularity: 3% [ ?

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Charisma Welch Stage-Gate Self-aware 309

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. 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. Juliano Howard T.

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

The principles the Mike describes in this article are excellent and common-sense; these are good principles to apply to the overall philosophy and strategy of the organizations social media interactions. link] Lisa Welch Hi Mike: Thanks for taking something so confusing and adding clarity by doing little more than telling the truth.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 325

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating.

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

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.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Happily though, the era of shareholder value maximization , which arguably started in the early 1980s when Jack Welch pronounced that General Electric’s primary purpose was to maximize returns for its investors, seems to be reaching its final days. Embrace your organization’s humanity. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

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. Sure enough, this resembles how Alibaba is organized. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12

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. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Maybe that is because of more public scrutiny and the operation of social media. So while indeed there are productive narcissists, narcissistic behavior can be very unproductive for both the work organizations and the people who experience it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

In this spirit, Jack Welch used to ask his managers in January to think of themselves as just starting a new job — encouraging them to break free of the past year's patterns and reinvent the way that they and their teams operate. Then replicate the process with your team and help it to cascade across your organization.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

I had this interview once with this guy who is this chief operating officer of this great big organization. He was down in Australia, and I said okay, well, everyone in the organization says you’re this phenomenal level 5 leader. I travel quite a bit in the different operating units. SHAWN: Totally, that’s it!

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Chief Operating Officer Innovation Learning-by-Doing Books 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

While many organizations have generated big returns from process improvement, few have built continuous improvement into their DNA. But that hasn't been the case at Danaher, DuPont, and Staples, which have continually improved their operations over many years, to the delight of their customers.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

In so doing, they run the risk of dismissing the impact of nonprofits — and diminishing the value of organizations that seek to make a difference without creating the potential conflicts that come with the profit motive. Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I served on the advisory group, and I’m still asking how a trusted organization could deteriorate so completely without the leaders’ awareness or action? Earlier in my career, I had the chance to visit leaders such as Jack Welch (GE), Paul O’Neill (Alcoa), and Ralph Larsen (Johnson & Johnson). Health Leadership Operations'

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Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Or do you believe that this is an unattainable, unaffordable goal in view of the financial and operational challenges your organization currently faces? Research shows that employee perceptions of rewards systems tend to degrade as you go lower in the organization. Next, make a list of the behaviors you are currently measuring.

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Incentives Performance Review Welch Motivation 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 306

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

How can you possibly be expected to grow an organization if you’re not growing yourself? If you are anything less then you are not only cheating yourself, but you’re also cheating your organization. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Upon reflection, I've asked myself why its easier to 'win' at work versus leading on the less organized family front. If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. The superficial victories that may accrue never makes up for failure on the homefront.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Bias in employment practices also presents another set of risks — those that arise within the organization. After all, does any company really want a reputation as a firm that won’t employ older workers or women? If all employees come from the same demographic, the lack of diversity may result in an insular workplace culture.

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