Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Other times, shifts may be driven by disruptions and disrupters like the one happening in the transportation and hotel markets right now thanks to the likes of Uber and Airbnb. Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. In fact, we defined growth as a process.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital. License. .

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The Big Red Machine had great players, but they also had a fabulous manager. I admired him and was pleased when later in his career he managed the Tigers to a World Series Championship as well. He was the first manager to win a World Series title in both the National and American Leagues. Sparky died yesterday at age 76.

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Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Workshop 190

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility. License. .

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Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2014

The impact that women have on our nation’s market alone is substantial. trillion market. Recommended Resource – The Welch Way. Diversity & Inclusion business management California Women’s Conference diversity and inclusion Michelle Patterson strategydriven Women Network'

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Diversity Conference Mentor Entrepreneur 64

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Successful CEOs push managers to go uncomfortably beyond faithful retransmission: they want their leadership coming up with proverbs and parables to better preach the new gospel. She pushed product managers to present enhancements in UX, not just elevating customer satisfaction scores. But people aren’t parrots.

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CEO Welch Health Care Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism. This case isn’t the exception.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” It was just what I was looking for.”

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. Innovation is always the product of teaming.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. This "too fast/too slow" leadership conundrum reeks of "Goldilocks" management — transformations and turnarounds should be neither too fast nor too slow; they must be "just right."

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Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 302

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

In an adjacent office was a colleague who had written something like 12 books and was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of organizational innovation. When I passed his office and he wasn't there, I was sure that he was meeting with Jack Welch or someone famous. He had a beautiful summer house near Cape Cod.

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Merton Black-Scholes Welch Organizational Behavior 14

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.] link] mikemyatt One of my favorite Churchill quotes (of which I have many).

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more."

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

This includes having an in-house recruiting firm to locate the best engineering talent for the start-ups it funds, a huge boon in a wildly competitive job market. A big selling point, the start-up hopes, is the energy-saving potential: If you’re a facilities manager, you can lower the temperature by 1 degree and see whether anyone reacts.

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Engineering Welch Media Wilde 8

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. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 376

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. 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. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

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. Senior management knew this was an issue.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Business leaders must recognize that a company’s employment practices can shape brand perceptions just as much as traditional marketing efforts. Diversity has also been found to drive growth and innovation, so companies that hire only for a specific type of employee might actually fall behind its competitors.

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Welch Reputation Diversity Media 10

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. And your sales and marketing departments aren’t working at cross-purposes, each with its own view of what success looks like.

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Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8

CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

Even politicians these days use books as part of their own marketing campaign and messaging strategies. She supports first-time and seasoned authors in their book writing, publishing and marketing endeavors through coaching and training in her “Your Book Is Your Hook!” consulting practice. www.YourBookIsYourHook.com By Jennifer S.

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Books Executive Coaching Welch Consultative 102

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Of the many contributions Jack Welch has made to business wisdom, one of his most famous was “Be #1 or #2 in every market.” General Mills actually grew from #2 to #1 in market share the last few years. Being number one in a declining market isn’t a great place to be. steven moore for hbr.

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Strategy Mass Marketing Business Model Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bravo Nando… Jack Welch - The former Chairman and CEO of GE reminded us of the value of candor. Candor, clarity, humility, passion and a heart for service characterize Jack Welch. Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation.

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Blog Blue Ocean Strategy Collins Video 299