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.&#
Sales Wolf Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
Ever the engineer at heart, Tom has come up with a series of "equations" to follow that will help implement these strategies regardless of what industry or line of business you work in. . And, generally speaking, this does not create a lot of problems.
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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. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.
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. It's a different world.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2014
Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. This includes having an in-house recruiting firm to locate the best engineering talent for the start-ups it funds, a huge boon in a wildly competitive job market.
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. Renault has a 230 million Euro remanufacturing business with engines and gear boxes. The remanufactured cars leave the factory with the same warranty as a new engine. It's fascinating.
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