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Great Leadership Trains

Career Advancement

Jack Welch Dianne had always felt like more of a wallflower than a leader. To get there, she knew she had to focus on growing her leadership skills. Within a couple of months, her boss had remarked about her growing leadership competencies and suggested she might be a prime candidate for a directorial position one day.

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Soft Corporate Cultures

Coaching Tip

In the April 30, 2012 issue of FORTUNE , Jack and Suzy Welch wrote about "one of the most immutable rules of business. Is Bribery an Ethical Condition of Doing Business in the Global Economy? How ethically vulnerable is your organization? A biennial survey of the nonprofit Ethics Resource Center found 25% of nearly 2,000 U.S.

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Letting People Go with Transparency and Dignity

Leadership Freak

Jack Welch One wise business owner told me, “Sometimes I’m closer to people after I fire them than before.” ** Never make enemies of people you “let go,” if you can help it. Every person who leaves goes on to represent your company. They can bad-mouth or praise.” Turning bad to good: Never humiliate. Ask, [.].

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Possibility Maximizer: The Leadership Quarterly

Sales Wolf Blog

 Today I have a great quarterly leadership journal for you to check out. The Resource: The Leadership Quarterly What it is: The Leadership Quarterly is a peer reviewed journal that is published six times a year (four quarterly issues plus two "Special Issues").  Enjoy!

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Letting People Go with Transparency and Dignity

Leadership Freak

Jack Welch One wise business owner told me, “Sometimes I’m closer to people after I fire them than before.” ** Never make enemies of people you “let go,” if you can help it. Every person who leaves goes on to represent your company. They can bad-mouth or praise.” Turning bad to good: Never humiliate. Ask, [.].

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business Review

They also consider it fair when their evaluations are accurate and are conducted based on ethical and moral principles. Under the leadership of Jack Welch, General Electric ranked their employees’ performance from top to bottom, giving additional rewards to the top 20% while laying off the bottom 10%.

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Petraeus and the Rise of Narcissistic Leaders

Harvard Business Review

As Michael Maccoby pointed out in The Productive Narcissist , many well-known, even iconic leaders such as Martha Stewart, Jack Welch, and Bill Gates are almost certainly narcissistic personalities, and narcissism is useful for attaining leadership positions, maintaining power, and even stimulating creativity and innovation.

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