Next Level Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

(The picture that accompanies this post is me in that moment from 2013.). 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).

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Welch CEO Bottom-up Media 147

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 298

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution Lisa Bodell Bibliomotion (2013) How to envision the future you want to create, make the necessary connections, and meanwhile engage in assumption reversal Obviously, it would be idiotic to kill an entire company or eliminate all of its status quo.

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Welch Company Hotels Review 75

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

And a 2013 study by Xueming Luo, Vamsi K. Their work concurs with previous studies on the importance of CEO succession and how new CEOs are more open, inclusive, and search for new solutions ( Miller, 1993 ). Yes there are exceptions — Steve Jobs and Jack Welch leap to mind. Succession planning'

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CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

With its success, Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma are making the case for a strategy approach that has fallen out of favor in the U.S. 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.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 13