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A Guide For How To Dream Big And Win In Business

Eric Jacobson

Today, Elting is the Founder and CEO of The Elizabeth Elting Foundation, which creates scholarship opportunities for entrepreneurial young women, funds exciting women-led startups and social businesses, and supports women-led organizations that foster women’s success through educational programs, mentorships, community building and more.

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Managing Virtual Teams: Three Keys to Success

Women on Business

Guest post by business strategy and management education expert Trish Gorman (learn more about Trish at the end of this post). Most of us realize that high-performing teams are not really “managed.” Keeping three things in mind will help you move from serving as a glorified meeting manager to becoming a true team leader.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Priority number two is team building and talent management. Jack Welch the former head of GE built a reputation as one of the great chief executives of this era. What does a CEO really do anyway?

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Soft Corporate Cultures

Coaching Tip

Recently, speaking to the Greater Ann Arbor Area Economic Club about tough love and discipline in both education and the business world, said "We trained a generation of your Americans that they get the "gold star" whether their stuff is any good or not. Frankly, we're turning out a bunch of functional illiterates.".

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Possibility Maximizer: Aon Hewitt Webcasts

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Today I have a great collection of HR and talent management webcasts from Hewitt Associates that I would like to point you to.    Enjoy!

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Nice Guys Can Finish First

Marshall Goldsmith

Imagine a world where technical skills, educational pedigrees, even professional achievements and track records no longer matter. Everyone is highly skilled, well educated at the same school, and locked in a dead heat of accomplishment, posting exactly the same “lifetime batting average.”Now, by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Is There a CEO Afterlife? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

GE’s Jack Welch (pictured above) divides his time consulting with companies, travelling, golfing, lecturing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and donating time and money to business education. Tags: C-Suite , CEO , Human Resources , Jack Welch , Leadership , Life. Join the campaign. Did you like this?

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