Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 28, 2022

My professional experience has been accelerated by my own successes and failures as well as the incredibly sage content of the likes of Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, Jack Welch, Marcus Aurelius, and particularly Ray Dalio.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders. I've always thought the "leader vs. manager" debate was kind of useless, and I wrote an early post about it here. Leaders vs. Managers. So, here's the distinction I draw between leaders and managers. Hope you've enjoyed it.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Rethinking Managing and Leading in Real-Time by @ArtPetty. READ, Caveat emptor, CEO by @TedKinni A short list of questions can help leaders avoid the potentially harmful consequences of flawed management studies. Jack Welch: For a time, the most valuable CEO on earth by @geoffcolvin.

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Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2012

Guest post by business strategy and management education expert Trish Gorman (learn more about Trish at the end of this post). Most of us realize that high-performing teams are not really “managed.” Keeping three things in mind will help you move from serving as a glorified meeting manager to becoming a true team leader.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

.” – Eric Reis “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” – Peter Drucker “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. Leaders should always be working to develop new leaders, helping their employees develop the skillsets that will allow them to effectively manage others. Q&A sessions where managers can ask for clarity on points of confusion.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Bill Lane was Jack Welch’s speechwriter for nearly two decades. Naturally, Welch figures into much of this book. Of Related Interest: 5 Leadership Lessons: Inside Welch's Communication Revolution at GE. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 18, 2018

Duryea : Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and even Thomas Edison are a few of the great visionary leaders in their respective industries. What made them such great leaders was not just one aspect of their management style or their respective innovations. Guest post by David A.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

And there are a very large number of middle market search firms who are hired by HR to find new managers and mid-level executives for their companies. A rare exception to the “go outside for talent” mantra was General Electric under the reign of CEO Jack Welch. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.” ~Jack Welch.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

This list of 28 great quotes to inspire and help manage change may be useful to remind yourself and your coworkers of the needs and benefits that motivate successful people to not only welcome it, but to become advocates and champions for progress. Jack Welch. Leo Tolstoy. Change before you have to”. People don’t resist change.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Jack Welch Dianne had always felt like more of a wallflower than a leader. Leadership requires enormous drive, hard work, good stress-management skills, and enthusiasm. Or, if you’re a manager working to grow your people’s leadership qualities, prompt them to list those steps for themselves. Great leaders have high energy.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. Leaders should always be working to develop new leaders, helping their employees develop the skillsets that will allow them to effectively manage others. Q&A sessions where managers can ask for clarity on points of confusion.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2011

There is a popular image of the best managers having a bit of a nasty streak to them. Jack Welch was arguably the leading manager of the 20th Century and was renowned for his ruthlessness. In football Alex Ferguson is well known for delivering the 'hair dryer treatment' to poorly performing players.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Communication is managed as a business process. Shaffer says that while it must be managed as a business process, it spans all of the other business processes. Shaffer says that while it must be managed as a business process, it spans all of the other business processes. Jack Welch says, “It’s not a speech… or a videotape.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 10, 2012

“Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people,” Jack Welch. Most leaders play not-to-lose rather than playing to win, especially in large organizations. The more we have to lose the more we play not-to-lose. What we protect owns, limits, and controls us. What we risk propels us forward. When to risk: An [.].

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 16, 2011

I like to start off each week by featuring five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere that I found to be particularly good reading. Happy Monday! Here are my picks for the week of May 9th - 15th, 2011.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Because as Jack Welch, former CEO of GE has said, It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. Go for it, and lead well!

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  This week I have a great management blog carnival to share with you. The Resource: Management Improvement Carnival What it is:  The Management Improvement Carnival is similar to other blog carnivals that you may be familiar with (e.g.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 27, 2012

John Bell suggests, when excitable equals passionate, we admire Jack Welch, Steve Jobs, and Howard Shultz. According to the input from my facebook page, being “unexcitable” isn’t the most admired leadership quality. All of which are famous or notorious for their passion. Perhaps it’s a matter of definition and context? “I

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Today I would like to feature a powerful collection of free downloadable tools and resources from The Management Center.  Enjoy!

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Today I am excited to highlight a resource that features one of my all time favorite business leaders: Jack Welch.  Each Friday I like to share a resource that I feel can help you and your organization to Maximize Possibility.  Enjoy!

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

I like to start off each week by highlighting five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere that I found to be especially good reading during the past week. Below are my picks for January 24th - 30th, 2011.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Guest post from Cassandra Frangos : We had a handy rule of thumb for hiring in my first job in management consulting. Likewise, the aggressive and purportedly overbearing Jack Welch was highly respected and emulated, but likability was not a key ingredient for leading the massively complex global conglomerate.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2015

Shinseki Field Manual 22-100 [comma] Army Leadership Frances Hesselbein Jack Welch James Kouzes and Barry Posner John Gardner Patrick Lencioni John Kotter Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Institute; 1st edition (2004) Oliver Wendell Holmes Peter Drucker Richard E. Marine Corps Book of Strategy (Tactics for Managing Confrontation)'

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Priority number two is team building and talent management. Jack Welch the former head of GE built a reputation as one of the great chief executives of this era. What does a CEO really do anyway?

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LDRLB

MARCH 18, 2011

Tograding was made most popular by former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. Welch’s practice at GE was to locate the top 20 percent of performers, celebrate them and pay them handsomely. Welch advocates such performance evaluations up to 4 times per year. Leadership groysberg talent management topgrading welch'

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2019

Once peer review is collected, employees at Facebook are ‘stack ranked’ and assigned a grade by management. The infamous “stack rank” system was introduced by Jack Welch, one of the world’s most respected and celebrated CEOs, known for his winning and time-tested philosophy on people management.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire executive coaches? These are presented in rank order of importance: Conflict management. Leadership training improves your ability to quickly manage problems before they get worse. Conflict management. By: Gary Cohen. “ Persuasion.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

J EFFREY IMMELT took over General Electric from Jack Welch at a time of increasing instability. If you can instill that psychology in your management group, you can get transformation." He says, "The task of the CEO has never been as difficult as it is today. In that vein, my story is one of progress versus perfection.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

But in this context, they usually associate leadership with a management-type position. You’ll have more decisions to make, more uncertainty to negotiate and more change to manage. The higher you go in an organization, the more you become responsible for. That means there is more to stress over, it’s true.

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Leadership Welch Bureaucracy Influence 173

Leadership Freak

APRIL 10, 2012

“Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people,” Jack Welch. Most leaders play not-to-lose rather than playing to win, especially in large organizations. The more we have to lose the more we play not-to-lose. What we protect owns, limits, and controls us. What we risk propels us forward. When to risk: An [.].

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 27, 2012

In the April 30, 2012 issue of FORTUNE , Jack and Suzy Welch wrote about "one of the most immutable rules of business. 56 percent ranked ethical behavior as an important characteristic, followed by sound judgment (51%) and being adaptable/flexible (47%). -- Source: American Management Association, New York, NY.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2017

One way to get a handle on the long-term impact question is to ask another (with a hat tip to Suzy Welch ) – will this matter a week from now, a month from now, a year from now, ten years from now? For most people, family, health and well-being matter as much or more than work. Who else cares about this ball?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2012

When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.” — Jack Welch. “To help others develop, start with yourself! Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 27, 2012

John Bell suggests, when excitable equals passionate, we admire Jack Welch, Steve Jobs, and Howard Shultz. According to the input from my facebook page, being “unexcitable” isn’t the most admired leadership quality. All of which are famous or notorious for their passion. Perhaps it’s a matter of definition and context? “I

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

More than half of human-resources managers say showing appreciation for workers cuts turnover, and 49% believe it increases profit, according to a study of 815 managers by the Society for Human Resource Management. Even the crustiest managers acknowledge that acknowledgment matters.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? This is difficult for CEOs who can’t be fully transparent with the people they manage. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it. In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching.

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