Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 62

Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

When I was first put in a position of supervising others, I received no formal training in leadership. Many outstanding individual performers – whether it’s in sales, engineering or accounting – are often promoted to supervisor or manager because of their technical expertise. There’s no shortage of books on the topic of leadership.

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Welch Guidelines Advice Skills 66

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Dan McCarthy, Great Leadership : Do's and Don'ts for Having a 360 Degree Assessment Development Discussion - There is little argument that 360 degree assessments are a powerful tool for leadership development. Michael McKinney, Leadership Now : Do You Have Leadership Lock-In? -  Enjoy!

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 93

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

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. ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. It was just what I was looking for.”

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2013

A long, long time ago, back in the days when Jack Welch was leading GE, organizations starting using a “9 box” performance and potential matrix for succession planning and leadership development. Another despised variation, often favored by the engineers and scientists. leadership and results”, or “leadership and management”).

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Welch Budgeting Tools Guidelines 239

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As companies thinned out, those leadership positions disappeared — and most haven't come back since. In that period at General Electric, for example, engineers hired right out of school went through a career development process which included managerial training. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers.

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Career Welch Information Technology Training 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Then I met three people — a Dutch CEO, a Welch education expert and a German scientist — who saw things in a very different way. The third was around thought leadership. Renault has a 230 million Euro remanufacturing business with engines and gear boxes. But when you play it out, it just doesn't work.

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Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

The Resource:    LinkUp Monthly Jobs Report What It Is:   LinkUp is a job search engine that finds and displays employment openings directly from the career section of employer websites for companies of all sizes.  Enjoy!  Currently LinkUp is keeping tabs on job postings from over 21,000 organizations.

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Report Human Resources Open-book Advertising 124

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 402

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Five years ago, Jack Welch famously stated that there are three fundamental ways to motivate employees: financial rewards, recognition, and a clear mission. Unlike Welch’s 41-year tenure at GE, today’s employees are expected to hold an average of 10 jobs before the age of 40.

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Team Welch Motivation Metrics 10

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Who is your favorite leadership role model? Thought Leaders Share Their Favorite Leadership Role Models. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership suggests A. Edwards Deming, engineer and management consultant. “He clearly articulated the importance of building a management system that was effective and continually improving.

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Leadership Engineering Welch Collins 180

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth.

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Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Jack Welch has a Ph.D. in engineering, but I doubt if any problems he encountered in his last 30 years at General Electric were even remotely related to these skills. previously published in Leadership Excellence). We apply these behavioral criteria to almost any successful person – whether it’s a CEO or a plumber.

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Skills CFO Cost-Benefit Analysis Welch 114

The Practical Leader

MAY 9, 2012

Read more about that in my blog post “ Beware the Vision and Mission Statement Trap of Wordsmithing Hell “ We’ve developed three key questions to cut through the wordsmithing and “vernacular engineering debate” on definitions of Vision, Values, and Purpose/Mission. Fatal Five Failure Factors. Culture Transformation Pathways.

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