Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Heather McCulligh , Halogen Software Talent Management Blog : Why You Need a Strong Talent Bench - Most leaders and executives would strongly agree that an executive succession plan is critical to an organization's continued success.   Watch the video here , or feel free to download the PDF transcript.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 2, 2010

This includes legal topics and issues, compensation and benefits (health, financial/retirement, and voluntary), HR technology and software, training and development, HR management, and other related areas.   TLNT is the “go-to” place for smart, timely and thoughtful HR and talent management information.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Even if GE advertising once signaled a transition to software , it has played catch up in all the new software- and network-based industries. Business schools.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, for example, has been linguistically maneuvering from a proprietary Windows/Office software legacy to cloud computing, platform, and open systems contexts. Welch, says Lane, ruthlessly and relentlessly reviewed ever senior level presentation his top team made there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. These businesses now make up more than half the company. Of course, none of these shifts are easy.

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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. In the 21st century only IBM's Sam Palmisano has done so. When the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. These businesses now make up more than half the company. Of course, none of these shifts are easy.

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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. GE is an icon of management best practices. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

John describes a start-up, Crowd Comfort, whose software allows human beings to talk to their buildings via smart phones about such things as heat, light, and air flow. They aren’t smarter, of course — you’re the best judge of your own comfort, just as you’re the best judge of your lighting levels. In this piece from Greentech Media, Jeff St.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It is tempting to seek evidence to support every argument we make, but the most successful business leaders — from Jack Welch to Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos — have always sought to combine rational and intuitive thinking. An ounce of real insight is worth a pound of data. Further Reading. Getting Work Done (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

"Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, Fred "the shred" Goodwin, and "Neutron" Jack Welch were all famous for losing their cool. We see this at all levels in the hierarchy — my first boss would turn bright red and start shaking before he yelled at some poor soul for failing to debug a piece of software properly.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. The generation we call the 'silent' generation and the early Boomer cohort exemplified the 'sold my soul to the company store' gospel.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

There’s an ever-increasing demand for people who can leverage software to analyze, understand, and make day-to-day business decisions based on data. Five years ago, Jack Welch famously stated that there are three fundamental ways to motivate employees: financial rewards, recognition, and a clear mission.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. But in fact, it’s having a distinct corporate culture — not a copycat of another firm’s culture — that allows these great organizations to produce phenomenal results.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Spanning e-commerce, payments, messaging, business software, entertainment, and more , Alibaba looks a lot like a conglomerate. 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. Instead, it operates more like GE.

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