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.

Motivation 14

Motivation Productivity Products Marketing 14

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 6, 2010

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Blog 140

Blog Taylorism Taylor Human Resources 140

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. The impact that women have on our nation’s market alone is substantial.

Diversity 64

Diversity Conference Mentor Entrepreneur 64

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 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.

Blog 145

Blog Human Resources Talent Management Welch 145

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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Blog 133

Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 133

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

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Conference 133

Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

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Human Resources 140

Human Resources Talent Management Blog Resources 140

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

Media 318

Media Blog Tools Influence 318

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

Blog 124

Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

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Blog 100

Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 100

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

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Company 140

Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

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Human Resources 100

Human Resources Newsletter Blog Welch 100

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.

Leadership 190

Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Workshop 190

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

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Resources 100

Resources Consultative White Paper Human Resources 100

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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Newsletter 50

Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Steve Farber

MARCH 26, 2014

He has orchestrated the upcoming leadership summit with creativity and productivity as central themes of the conference. Farber claims that these principles of leadership can “dramatically improve the creativity and productivity in any organization—and that includes a healthier bottom line.

Press Release 71

Press Release Simon Magazine Participative 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” 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.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. ” He continued, “let’s not launch Product X version 2 and instead focus all our efforts on Product Y.” ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference.

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy 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.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

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.

CEO 8

CEO Welch Health Care Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

When you truly understand the perspective of others, you are most likely to reach productive solutions; further, all the participants will feel heard, whether their solution is adopted or not. The definition of the market needed to be changed based on an expanded understanding of its customers' needs. Prime the Pump.

360-Degree Feedback 17

360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 17

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'

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

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. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

So it’s consistent with market forces. Yes there are exceptions — Steve Jobs and Jack Welch leap to mind. I say we should have term limits for CEOs as we do in academia, where Deans typically serve for a maximum of five years. Consider: the average tenure of a Fortune 500 CEO is about 4.6 And a 2013 study by Xueming Luo, Vamsi K.

CEO 13

CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

While at GE, Jack Welch popularized the notion that it was good to fire the "bottom 10" of his managers every year. The challenge lies in productively managing talent's fat middle. In well-managed businesses, there are clear feedback mechanisms to ensure that the bottom of the talent pack gets managed out efficiently and objectively.

Bottom-up 12

Bottom-up Performance Review Mentor Welch 12

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.

Consensus 8

Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. What was so horrible about publicly traded companies that he’d consider being a CEO again, but only if he could avoid public markets? Are today’s investors really that horrible? Short answer: no.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

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.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

When I would listen to CEOs, I heard them say things like we're going to use five percent less materials in five years or make a product with 10 percent less material. Then I met three people — a Dutch CEO, a Welch education expert and a German scientist — who saw things in a very different way. The product design changes.

Company 10

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

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. 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.

Engineering 8

Engineering Welch Media Wilde 8

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

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Report 124

Report Human Resources Open-book Advertising 124

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

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. Winning is the biggest force multiplier that a leader has. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

Blog 302

Blog Brand Media Influence 302

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. This medium has been my preferred reading choice for a number of years now because it is extremely productive and time effective. Thanks for sharing the eloquent words Dan.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

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. The generation we call the 'silent' generation and the early Boomer cohort exemplified the 'sold my soul to the company store' gospel.

Blog 376

Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 376