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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business Review

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). By Jack Welch.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. Consider GE during Jack Welch’s tenure, Trimble Navigation under Steve Berglund, or IBM under Lou Gerstner. This is not a surprise.