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How HR Can Break Down Silos

Roundtable Talk

Breaking down business silos has been the goal ever since Jack Welch, advocated for the “boundaryless organization” over 30 years ago. Presciently, Welch pointed to the impact of globalization and technology as a catalyst that would propel companies to rethink how they work.

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Managing Virtual Teams: Three Keys to Success

Women on Business

But in today’s global workforce, the task of managing virtual teams complicates the management process and throws additional challenges into the mix. As Jack Welch counsels new leaders, “It’s about them, not about you.” Most of us realize that high-performing teams are not really “managed.” Shift your focus from yourself to the team.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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.&#

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Give Your Business a Competitive Advantage with this 4-Letter Word

Steve Farber

Technology. A recent study by Korn Ferry found that 63 percent of the 800 leaders they interviewed said technology will be their firm’s greatest source of competitive advantage within five years. And 67 percent said technology will create greater value in the future than people. Technology is important.

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Give Your Business a Competitive Advantage with this 4-Letter Word

Steve Farber

Technology. A recent study by Korn Ferry found that 63 percent of the 800 leaders they interviewed said technology will be their firm’s greatest source of competitive advantage within five years. And 67 percent said technology will create greater value in the future than people. Technology is important.

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Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks

Sales Wolf Blog

  When the TED conference was first conceived in 1984 its scope was originally Technology, Education and Design (hence the name TED).    When the TED conference was first conceived in 1984 its scope was originally Technology, Education and Design (hence the name TED). 

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In the 20th century, a select group of leaders — General Motor's Alfred Sloan, HP's David Packard and Bill Hewlett, and GE's Jack Welch — set the standard for the way corporations are run. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. They listen as well as they speak.