Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 13, 2011
I asked Jack Welch, at the World Business Forum 2011, to talk about tipping points in his life and he said, “I blew up a (GE) factory the first year I was there.” He was in his mid-twenties and figured his career was over. “I I was running a little pilot plant. It all exploded, went [.].
Leading Blog
AUGUST 16, 2012
Bill Lane was Jack Welch’s speechwriter for nearly two decades. In Losing It , he draws on his experiences primarily at GE to highlight the behaviors that are career killers. Naturally, Welch figures into much of this book. You need to ask yourself every day of your career, ‘Am I up to speed?
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First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 24, 2015
We’re less than a month away from the release of Jack and Suzy Welch‘s newest work, The Real Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career (Harper Business, 2015). It is a certain best-seller, and pre-orders for the book are rocking the online outlets.
Leadership Freak
MARCH 27, 2015
“Where marriages go off the rails is where you get married to your job and you start making decisions with your boss first, and then you come home and inform your spouse.” Suzy… Continue reading → Interview Success Growth leadership success'
Niagara Institute
JANUARY 4, 2024
Jack Welch once said, “Set stretch goals. Don’t settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch goals is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don’t sell yourself short by thinking that you’ll fail.” Is it really that straightforward, though?
Leading Blog
MARCH 31, 2020
Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Jack Welch: For a time, the most valuable CEO on earth by @geoffcolvin. Try These 2 Things by @Julie_WG. VIDEO: John Baldoni on Building Your Self-Awareness via @YouTube. How To Release The Grip of Backwards Thinking by @WScottCochrane.
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 26, 2018
To anyone who thinks these lists are a bit corny, consider that Jack Welch swore by his 3 Es: energy, energize, and edge. If an alliterative list was good enough for Welch, it’s good enough for me. A little Internet research will turn up “the 7 Ps of Marketing,” “the 7 Cs of Success,” “the 4 Ls of Retirement Planning,” and so on.
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