Next Level Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

(The picture that accompanies this post is me in that moment from 2013.). In case you’re not familiar with it, the Pit is the well at the bottom of an amphitheater style room that seats about a hundred people on GE’s Crotonville leadership development campus in the Hudson River Valley. That was a big takeaway for me.

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Welch CEO Bottom-up Media 147

Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 7, 2013

I first heard Jack Welch speak at the Leadercast Seminar in 2013. Even though he was over a decade into retirement and in his upper 70s, Welch’s rich enthusiasm for business and leadership took the audience (and the moderator) by storm.

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 13, 2013

My favorite annual leadership event takes place each May. The seminar features some of the biggest names in all of leadership. It’s Chick-fil-A Leadercast. This year’s theme was: “Simply Lead.” I hope you got to attend, but if not, I’ve included 12 of my greatest takeaways. Here they are: Complexity is the enemy of clarity. [.].

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Welch Seminar Teamwork Influence 235

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

In the 2013 Top 10 Premier league players, only 2 (Wayne Rooney and Daniel Sturridge) are English, the others are from Uruguay (Luis Suarez), Holland (Robin van Persie), Germany (Mesut Ozil), the Ivory Coast (Yaya Toure), Belgium (Vincent Kompany), Argentina (Sergio Aguer0), Spain (Juan Mata), and Denmark (Christian Eriksen).

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Execution Development Welch Globalization 321

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Source: The Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2013. A handful of business leaders, including Jack Welch , whose drive, passion, belief system and commitment are not simply communicated in their rhetoric, but embodied in the tones of their voices, through their body language, in the very sinews of who they are. Are you being genuine?

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Personal Power Power Self-aware Welch 88

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

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. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”.

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