Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Here's the 2nd in a series of guest posts by Professor Jim Clawson , one of our Executive Development Program instructors for a custom program we offer on Leading Change. He inherited a company that had developed 20 years of cultural focus on fit and efficiency. Take for example Jeff Immelt's eleven year run as CEO at GE. There's risk.

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Management Welch McCarthy Organizational Behavior 231

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Jack Welch the former head of GE built a reputation as one of the great chief executives of this era. Welch clearly not only understood the concept of organizational leverage through proper deployment of talent and resources He mastered it. That’s about it. Transfer ideas and allocate resources and get out of the way.&#

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 365

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Microsoft Corporation got its start by making operational software for personal computers; as a contractor to IBM who decided to explore the personal computer market after doing well in main frame and mid-sized computing hardware. . How A Generic Degree Can Hinder Leadership Development. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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Competitive Advantage Software Welch Marketing Strategy 85

Nathan Magnuson

MAY 18, 2015

Therefore, we must develop our teams. Many new ideas, products and technologies were built before the “market” was ready for them (such as the fax machine, printing press, automobiles or Apple products). Both Jack Welch and Condelizza Rice noted the need for optimists at previous Leadercast events.

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Godin Welch Bottom-up Seminar 120

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

It's sad that something as important to the economy as sales shows up as a footnote in the principles of marketing course at most graduate business schools," says Andy Zoltners, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. They will also gain a better sense of how to sell their ideas inside their own company.".

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Competitive Advantage Welch Tactics CEO 84

Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Blog Ingham Human Capital Human Resources 200

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Blog Taylorism Taylor Human Resources 140

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Emotional Intelligence 145

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Emotional Intelligence 133

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Human Resources Talent Management Blog Resources 140

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Emotional Intelligence 100

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 365

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Human Resources Newsletter Blog Emotional Intelligence 100

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Resources Consultative White Paper Human Resources 100

Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Jack Welch had some of it, but the sports coaches were a law unto themselves. Reply Ken Carroll November 8, 2010 at 1:08 am There’s something great about the old style leaders, espeically in sports. They had a no-nonsense integrity that is often lost in the slickness of modern business. Much to be learned from them.

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Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Workshop 190

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations. Top Books About Leadership.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 80

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 93

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations. Top Books About Leadership.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Why is it important to develop future leaders within your company? Challenges for Mid-Market Companies. Unlike GE, mid-market companies generally don’t have 96 candidates in the succession planning process queue, and a seven year process may be overkill.

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Development Critical Success Factor Leadership Development Collins 232

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. 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.

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

After GE achieved its goal of being first or second in several of its businesses with exceptional margins, then-CEO Jack Welch faced the challenge of how to spur continued growth. The definition of the market needed to be changed based on an expanded understanding of its customers' needs.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In that period at General Electric, for example, engineers hired right out of school went through a career development process which included managerial training. Jack Welch laid off thousands, "de-layering," as some people called it. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers.

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Career Welch Information Technology Training 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Gerstner turned around IBM and developed a reputation as one of the most effective executives ever — while Skillings played a major role in destroying Enron and ended up in jail. Steve Jobs, for example, often relied less on market research than on his gut feel for what customers would want.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

When Jack Welch was CEO of GE, he famously tasked each business with achieving number 1 or number 2 status in its industry, a goal-setting principle that echoes across the decades. ABC and Acme appear to be doing quite well relative to the market: If you make a simple comparison, they’re around the 80 th percentile.

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Company Comparison Benchmarking Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

While at GE, Jack Welch popularized the notion that it was good to fire the "bottom 10" of his managers every year. In well-managed businesses, there are clear feedback mechanisms to ensure that the bottom of the talent pack gets managed out efficiently and objectively.

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Bottom-up Performance Review Mentor Welch 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. Speed to market" isn't what's driving the change. The struggling high-tech titan is still bleeding from self-inflicted wounds from a fractious board.

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Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 336

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Report Human Resources Open-book Advertising 124