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.&#
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 2, 2010
Having advanced keyword search tools (knowing when someone's talking about you or your product), identifying key influencers (say, on a Twitter list), and really looking at social media through a CRM lens (vv. The key is knowing *when* – and how deeply – to interact. Thanks for the great insights Rob. Thanks for sharing!
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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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 13, 2014
Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete. Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.
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. In that strategy , the country uses state enterprises, industrial policy, and the power of its domestic market to dramatically increase the country’s industrial production.
Chris Brady
JULY 19, 2010
I am reminded of the Stephen King quote concerning the authorof Gone With the Wind: “Why didn’t she ever write another book?” Success is the product of many components, of which one of themost prominent is focus. Posted by: Tim Welch | August 03, 2010 at 12:46 AM Excellent points! My question is.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2014
Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. ” But in dealing with the investment community, Palmisano’s approach still seems like the only productive one for the CEO of a publicly traded company to take.
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