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

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 360

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. This Memorial Day, as you select the books you plan to read for pleasure this summer, how about adding to the list at least one business book. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 92

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

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. As you think about what business books you want to read next year, how about adding to the list at least one book from the list below. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?" Top Books About Leadership.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 78

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies. 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.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Randy rose to become a CEO in a General Electric Company business with the encouragement and coaching of high-level executives including the legendary GE Chairman, Jack Welch. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. . __ This Memorial Day, as you select the books you plan to read for pleasure this summer, how about adding to the list at least one business book. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 60

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. As you think about what business books you want to read next year, how about adding to the list at least one book from the list below. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?" Top Books About Leadership.

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Running a country calls for a sophisticated array of leadership skills — from shaping strategy to building a team to managing day-to-day operations. For example, McKinsey alumni Lou Gerstner and Jeff Skillings both went on to lead large corporations.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Steve Farber

MARCH 26, 2014

The all-star roster of keynote speakers includes: Jay Jay French, Guitarist and Manager of the iconic rock band, Twisted Sister, Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine, Janet Bray Attwood, co-author of New York Times bestseller, The Passion Test , and many other well-known speakers. The event will run for three days starting April 11.

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Press Release Simon Magazine Participative 71

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

Powell : The media’s narrative of leadership has long been dominated by talk of larger-than-life visionary prophets like Steve Jobs and executive warriors like Jack Welch. And hiring or holding onto the wrong CEOs costs shareholders an estimated $112 billion in lost market value every year. Why is it a problem? Powell was a F.C.

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CEO Books Succession Charisma 50

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

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. Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. link] Bert Decker Great post Mike.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

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

JUNE 21, 2012

Earlier in his career, as a business unit manager, he recognized that he must cut costs. After GE achieved its goal of being first or second in several of its businesses with exceptional margins, then-CEO Jack Welch faced the challenge of how to spur continued growth. One of those ideas was to grow the services businesses across GE.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

.* Downsizing has only escalated from there , however in the 80s and 90s the lost jobs were not in manufacturing but white-collar jobs, including management jobs. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers. Jack Welch laid off thousands, "de-layering," as some people called it. Grow your skills to grow your job.

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Career Welch Information Technology Training 16

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. What new skill could I learn? ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference.

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

When I passed his office and he wasn't there, I was sure that he was meeting with Jack Welch or someone famous. He and two other economists created the trading process called Black-Scholes that impacted the ways financial markets were informed and influenced. Mind you, this happened almost every day. You see the problem.

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Merton Black-Scholes Welch Organizational Behavior 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Two-thirds of CEOs don''t receive any outside advice on their leadership skills, and yet almost all would be receptive to suggestions from a coach. Conflict management is critical in the CEO role — just about anything that gets to the CEO''s desk has an element of pleasing someone and making someone else unhappy.

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CEO Survey Charan Welch 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If you were entering the job market in the early 90s, most job descriptions included “Macintosh experience” or “excellent PC skills” in their preferred qualifications. Many are investing heavily in hiring talent with data skills and building out data proficiency across the organization. Insight Center.

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Team Welch Motivation Metrics 10

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. ” So in their pursuit of employees with desirable skills and profiles, companies must be sure they aren’t alienating customers and other stakeholders.

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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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Leaders must have the vision and forward-focus to anticipate how technology could disrupt the business model and the skill to mobilize the organization for change and drive a culture of collaboration. Welch Leadership Center at Crotonville where leaders from other organizations (e.g.,

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