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What I Learned from Jack Welch

Next Level Blog

Back in the day, GE’s CEO Jack Welch used to hold forth from the Pit for three or four hours at a stretch leading a spirited back and forth with the high potential leaders in the company’s flagship Management Development Course (MDC). You’ve probably read that Welch passed away this week at the age of 84.

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The Growing Season for New Leaders Never Ends

General Leadership

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” ” Jack Welch , former CEO of General Electric. You may retire, move to a different job, get fired, get promoted…but you will not be the leader of your organization forever.

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Great Leaders Know Core Business Model Vision

Great Leadership By Dan

Duryea : Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and even Thomas Edison are a few of the great visionary leaders in their respective industries. Every organization is under an unbreakable operational fact called the “Law of Business Reality.” That is an organization will serve its customer in a profitable way or cease to exist.

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Five Steps to Successful Execution of a Strategy

Six Disciplines

You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. Walking and chewing gum if you will. This is a haphazard way to operate.

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CO2 Partners | Good Leaders Ask Questions More Often Than They Answer Them

CO2

Successful leaders spend 70 to 80 percent of their time asking questions, not answering them. They move decisions as far down the organization as they possibly can and thus cultivate widespread engagement and accountability. general Jack Chain who was responsible for the country ’ s nuclear arsenals, to Jack Welch, former CEO of G.E.

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CO2 Partners | Good Leaders Ask Questions More Often Than They Answer Them

CO2

Successful leaders spend 70 to 80 percent of their time asking questions, not answering them. They move decisions as far down the organization as they possibly can and thus cultivate widespread engagement and accountability. general Jack Chain who was responsible for the country ’ s nuclear arsenals, to Jack Welch, former CEO of G.E.

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Managing Virtual Teams: Three Keys to Success

Women on Business

Guest post by business strategy and management education expert Trish Gorman (learn more about Trish at the end of this post). Elevate it to a meaningful mission by highlighting how your team’s work will help your organization stand out. As Jack Welch counsels new leaders, “It’s about them, not about you.”

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