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.

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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.

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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. These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines. Business schools.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

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

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

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

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Yes there are exceptions — Steve Jobs and Jack Welch leap to mind. After leaving GE, as the President and CEO of Aircraft Engines for three years, he spent five years as CEO of 3M, then left to become CEO of Boeing from 2005 to date. Those who overstay their welcome may do so for any number of reasons.

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CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Katrina Brooker describes this process and many other inside details in her anatomy of the firm, which is made up of former engineers and start-up founders and is seen as the golden ticket for any fledgling company in Silicon Valley. The Comfort of Crowds Are Smartphone Users the Missing Link in Building Efficiency?

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Engineering Welch Media Wilde 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. Despite its critics, the 9 box lives on.

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Welch Budgeting Tools Guidelines 239

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.

Company 10

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was largely championed by Jack Welch, then CEO of GE. Welch’s “boundaryless organization” should seemingly be the de facto reality for most companies. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Wulf noted that Ma studied Jack Welch’s approach and was inspired by GE’s decentralized decision-making. Like Welch, Ma wanted his executives to be free to do whatever was needed to make their units the best businesses in their fields. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Within two years after becoming chief executive of General Electric in 1981, Jack Welch completed one of his most far-reaching initiatives: reducing the number of GE business units from about 150 to 15. In effect, Welch set out to focus the company on the businesses where it had the potential for greatness, and to jettison everything else.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Edwards Deming, engineer and management consultant. “He clearly articulated the importance of building a management system that was effective and continually improving. Social engineering was developed in response to racial inequities in the justice system. ” – Albert Einstein. – Follow John. Follow Artika.

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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. 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

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2011

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. 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 123

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. What kind of people do we want to hire, promote, reward, or fire?

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Mission Statement Welch Webinar Bottom-up 58