N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. While I use online for just about everything, and will be facilitating a leader’s board meeting for PBS on webcam tomorrow for example, I still prefer the page to the screen when I read:-).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. From what I have observed with your son's they both seem to be winning the battle – of course it never hurts to have a great example to follow:). link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert. I Think Not.

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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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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. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I still see examples of what happened at Mid Staffs in even the best of hospitals. Earlier in my career, I had the chance to visit leaders such as Jack Welch (GE), Paul O’Neill (Alcoa), and Ralph Larsen (Johnson & Johnson). Their attention was on their finances — understandable and even appropriate these days.

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