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What I Learned from Jack Welch

Next Level Blog

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. You’ve probably read that Welch passed away this week at the age of 84.

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How Can You Further Develop Your Talent? 7 Key Steps

Career Advancement

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. Leaders should always be working to develop new leaders, helping their employees develop the skillsets that will allow them to effectively manage others. How can you develop your talent?

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Jack Welch on the Cruelest Environments

Leadership Freak

Image source: me Jack Welch and candor come together. In his usual no-nonsense fashion, Jack said, “If your employees don’t know where they stand, you have no right to call yourself a manager.” It didn’t take long for the topic of candor to come up at the dinner I attended after the Chick-fil-A Leadercast. Here’s […].

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English Football (Soccer) and Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

Simple really, rather than spend millions on youth soccer and developing the next generation of superstars, they go out and pay millions for players from outside of England, because they have neglected to focus on developing local talent. EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT. Many great CEOs came up through the GE Executive Development system.

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Talent Identification and Management

Career Advancement

“Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations.” ~ Jack Welch One of the best ways to strengthen your company as a whole is to devote attention to developing your employee talent. There are several ways that you, as a leader, can help to develop the talent at your company.

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How Can You Further Develop Your Talent? 7 Key Steps

Career Advancement

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. Leaders should always be working to develop new leaders, helping their employees develop the skillsets that will allow them to effectively manage others. How can you develop your talent?

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Hot Seat: Jeff Immelt at GE

Leading Blog

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. Jack Welch led GE to some impressive numbers. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift. I don’t think if Welch stayed on, it would have been much different. What Welch built was not sustainable. That’s baptism by fire.

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