Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Leadership Lessons from Sparky Anderson by Kevin Eikenberry on November 5, 2010 in Influence , Leadership , Learning I grew up like many men my age, a big baseball fan. Much to be learned from them. Thanks for sharing, Kevin.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. 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.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2014

Contributing to the total $7 trillion in consumer and business spending in America, women influence 85% of all purchasing decisions, including half of products that would seem more oriented to men, such as automobiles, home improvement items, and consumer electronics. Recommended Resource – The Welch Way. trillion market.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 30, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Every marketer knows that people want more good things — good products, experiences, and ideas — and fewer bad ones. It's not just people who have different motivational focuses — products, activities, and ideas can have them too. When toothpaste is about a "whiter smile," it's a promotion product.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 11, 2011

Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal Robert Simons Harvard Business School Press (1994) I read this book when it was first published in 1994 and recently re-read it, curious to see how well it has held up. My conclusion? Very well indeed. What I find especially noteworthy is [.].

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” ” Nadella was sending a clear message to look past the “sacred cows” of the organization and pursue an agenda of innovation over orthodoxy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

She pushed product managers to present enhancements in UX, not just elevating customer satisfaction scores. While the incumbent customer lexicon wasn’t abandoned, it neither drove nor literally defined how marketers and innovators talked about the people they were serving.

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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.”.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. We’re here to chat about Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes. How do those innovative leaders actually help inspire that collaboration more often? Sometimes they’re researchers or scholars. And we interview them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency. This is all right as long as they explain the rationale behind their actions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. By the end of 2017, this pension surplus had turned into a pension deficit of almost $29 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. Auto industry Leading teams'

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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

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. Electrolux CEO Keith McLoughlin has declared that new product prototypes have to enjoy at least a 70% customer preference rate in blind competition with best-selling rival products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

After the initial rush of enthusiasm and energy, established routines and networks can smother the drive for innovation. Yes there are exceptions — Steve Jobs and Jack Welch leap to mind. But according to Professor Luo and his team, the optimal length of time in the proverbial saddle is 4.8

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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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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). By Jack Welch. Welch is perhaps the most famous CEO-turned-leadership-author and a vocal advocate of HR.

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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. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

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). They created and maintained a close connection to frontline staff — what Jim Womack , the expert in lean production and thinking, calls “going to gemba ” — Japanese for “the actual place.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

The worry," according to the Tech Review, "is that automated bots could be designed to significantly influence opinion" about such things as politics and products. But "as our own history suggests, the economic impact of technology piracy isn''t straightforward," with examples of patents and trade secrets both helping and hurting innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

This medium has been my preferred reading choice for a number of years now because it is extremely productive and time effective. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. I subscribe to these venues because I’m able to be “pushed” content that I’ve asked for in a medium that I enjoy.

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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. 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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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. This was delaying product production.

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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

MAY 5, 2011

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects. What are their secrets?

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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. If your culture and brand are mismatched, you can end up with happy, productive employees who produce the wrong results.

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CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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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.” Similarly, categories decline when categories hit their peak and are replaced by better, more innovative categories. They have pricing, product, brand, portfolio and corporate strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Earlier this month, in a spirited defense of the forced curve, Jack Welch advocated rating people on lists of competencies so that you can, in his words, “let them know where they stand.” Cloaking it with a generic list of competencies is inherently counter-productive. The Pony Express was the answer. Four hundred horses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., Welch Leadership Center at Crotonville where leaders from other organizations (e.g., the one-click mobile purchasing app), it is the means through which we get work done (e.g.,

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