LDRLB

MARCH 18, 2011

Tograding was made most popular by former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. Welch’s practice at GE was to locate the top 20 percent of performers, celebrate them and pay them handsomely. Welch advocates such performance evaluations up to 4 times per year. Leadership groysberg talent management topgrading welch'

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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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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

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

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 2, 2010

Ann Bares, Compensation Force : Using Long Term Incentives to Retain Top Sales Performers - The world of sales is often one of short term perspectives.    Not surprisingly, compensation plans for sales reps encourage and reward short term performance.  Given

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 23, 2010

 You will also find an abundance of high quality resources on worker engagement in the form of free PDF e-books, short videos on the topic, listings of upcoming EE events and seminars, and an impressive feed of news articles and stories from a wide variety of sources.   Head over and check it out today!

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. Here's the short version: "A person can't be best friends with 2,000 people. link] Allan W. link] Allan W. Thanks for sharing!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

And short-term numbers at that. 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. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6 While Welch bequeathed a strong pension plan to GE, he also left the company with a dubious legacy of what is now called earnings management. The Board’s Audit Committee Wasn’t Paying Attention.

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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. Patience and a long-term view. Forward-thinking leaders are not just achieving measurable success in the short-term.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

Years ago Jack Welch, then CEO of GE, said he was happy the interview guide was helping GE pick people better, but he wanted 90% success and asked me for a suggestion. I said, “Use the tandem interview,” and he approved it in one second.

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

In short, from a world-view that disdains accomplishment and merit (whatone accomplishes and earns) and instead focuses upon position and power andprestige (who one is and who one knows), heroes are made out of those who seemto succeed despite the rules of effort, contribution, and earning it. My question is.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The eight steps are: 1) Create Urgency, 2) Form a Powerful Coalition, 3) Create a Vision for Change, 4) Communicate the Vision, 5) Remove Obstacles, 6) Create Short-term Wins, 7) Build on the Change. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever, and the one who introduced the term “Knowledge Worker.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

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

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. I don't think we can separate the two. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Five years ago, Jack Welch famously stated that there are three fundamental ways to motivate employees: financial rewards, recognition, and a clear mission. Unlike Welch’s 41-year tenure at GE, today’s employees are expected to hold an average of 10 jobs before the age of 40.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The greatest leaders throughout history have been nothing short of relentless in their pursuit of knowledge. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. How can you possibly be expected to grow an organization if you’re not growing yourself?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

And that's just the very short list of my intellectual heroes and their findings. A vision is meaningless in human terms, but an ambition is only meaningful in human terms. But it's a weak argument — and it's getting weaker by the second. Here's what we already know.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

OTM assignments are sourced and short-term talent matches made to accelerate the completion work across the organizations, un-bounded by geography or business line or industry segment. Welch Leadership Center at Crotonville where leaders from other organizations (e.g., Consider, for example, open enrollment at the John F.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

At the macro level, short-term EBIDTA optimization board room mindsets, the shareholder investor quest for outsized returns, and the reality that digital transformation is not enough have led to the conditions for digital giants to emerge. Let’s start with the short-term mindset. Take a long-term growth mind set.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Without further borrowing, much higher taxes, or draconian spending cuts — none of which may be possible or even legal on short notice — the government might not be able to service its existing debts, leading to a default. Congress has never allowed this to happen, so the consequences are unknowable, but they could be really bad.

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