CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it. But why do leaders, especially iconic ones, want coaching?

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? Views employees in new start-up or innovation areas as having equal importance to those driving operational improvement. Although, I was surprised to see that Facebook made the Hay list this year. I’ll need to talk to Hay and find what they’ve been up to.

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Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. Let’s take the 1990s.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Microsoft Corporation got its start by making operational software for personal computers; as a contractor to IBM who decided to explore the personal computer market after doing well in main frame and mid-sized computing hardware. .

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Competitive Advantage Software Welch Marketing Strategy 85

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. This is a haphazard way to operate. The caveat is to avoid the disruption of current operations. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it.

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Execution Strategy Succession Short-term 70

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

With all due respect to Jack Welch , the facts tell a different story: According to 20-First’s 3rd Annual Global Gender Scorecard , 90% of Executive Committee positions are still filled by men, with only 10% by women. This isn’t a question only men will ask – I hear it asked by woman just as often.

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Leadership Development Development Committee Leadership 249

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. Their efforts are interdependent.”. Edwards Deming, The New Economics. Something was missing in the calculations, perhaps interdependencies and resulting unintended consequences were overlooked.

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Deming Welch System Open-book 28

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports. Why is that?

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Skills How To Audience Welch 169

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

 In just over 15 minutes you will learn a lot of important information about the upcoming flu season - I know I certainly did. .  In just over 15 minutes you will learn a lot of important information about the upcoming flu season - I know I certainly did.

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System Human Resources Presenteeism Blog 167

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Larger companies are often owned by shareholders who are removed from day-to-day operations of the company and therefore more likely to demand performance accountability from the management. One might say this is a good thing. I do not believe so. Low Job Performance Toleration puts the entire company at risk. I do not believe so.

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Company Human Resources Emotional Intelligence Welch 140

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

  I really like the carnival's focus on lean management techniques, which I feel is especially relevant in today's tenuous business environment as all of us can afford to seek out additional operational efficiencies via lean management processes.   Ready to improve your management skills? .

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

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?

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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

  After illustrating the clear benefits of using checklists to prevent simple errors, Gawande goes on to describe how to implement them into your professional life.   Why You Need to Read This Book:   As I mentioned above, don't be put off by the title of this book and its seemingly drab subject matter.

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Human Resources Blog Emotional Intelligence Welch 100

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

 Numerous forecasting models are based off economic indicators like the Consumer Confidence Index and it is critical that you follow and understand how these leading indicators relate to your organization's operations. I really like how The Conference Board takes a high level approach to monitoring the business climate.

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

In a nice post to read in conjunction with Sharlyn's post above, Tim points out that we aren't operating in Q1 of 2009 anymore and that fewer and fewer employees are willing to stick around in a job working for a boss they can't stand.   Tim Sanders, Sanders Says : Don't Take Your Employees for Granted! -

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Emotional Intelligence 100

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably. As Jack Welch said Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. And yet, talent pools and confidence in future internal leaders continue to weaken. The reality is that today leaders’ abilities have hardly changed.

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Leadership Agility Leadership Pipeline Welch 392

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room. Who are these people? Popularity: 3% [ ?

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Charisma Welch Stage-Gate Self-aware 309

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About the Authors Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership , is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States.

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

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Media Blog Tools Influence 325

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Not only were costs cut, but operations became more focused and simplified. Consider Ivan Seidenberg, who rose to become Chairman and CEO of Verizon. Prime the Pump.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Happily though, the era of shareholder value maximization , which arguably started in the early 1980s when Jack Welch pronounced that General Electric’s primary purpose was to maximize returns for its investors, seems to be reaching its final days.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

In this spirit, Jack Welch used to ask his managers in January to think of themselves as just starting a new job — encouraging them to break free of the past year's patterns and reinvent the way that they and their teams operate. Then replicate the process with your team and help it to cascade across your organization.

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Welch Energy Banking Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Maybe that is because of more public scrutiny and the operation of social media. Second, it at least feels as if this sort of behavior and the career consequences that result seem to be occurring more frequently now.

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Welch COO Constraint CEO 15

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. General Electric Operations' GE is an icon of management best practices. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 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. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

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. Here in the United States, the presidential election cycle gives us the opportunity to publicly discuss the characteristics of good leaders.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

I had this interview once with this guy who is this chief operating officer of this great big organization. I travel quite a bit in the different operating units. You feel like it should be a lot harder than it sort of is. Keeping it simple is what becomes the really hard part. SHAWN: Totally, that’s it! That’s it!

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Chief Operating Officer Innovation Learning-by-Doing Books 60

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Jack Welch. Welch is perhaps the most famous CEO-turned-leadership-author and a vocal advocate of HR. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). By Daniel H.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

As we in the United States juggle major structural and operational changes and try to secure our financial systems as revenues fall, we must keep our promise of safety and high quality to every patient, every time. Health Leadership Operations' As the report makes clear from the outset, there are lessons for all leaders in this story.

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Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Former GE CEO Jack Welch, writing in Business Week , characterized the nonprofit sector as a "foreign land" in which performance is not a priority and employees are guaranteed "lifetime employment." Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, wrote last year on the Wired web site, "Let's be real: The nonprofit model is broken.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

That''s why Elizabeth started out one notch lower, with the office of the Chief Operating Officer, "because that secretary knows everybody," she says. Once you''ve identified who you''d like to meet, the first step is having some sort of imprimatur behind you so they''re more likely to pay attention.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. We were ready to give Ma the keys to Yahoo’s operations in China.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Or do you believe that this is an unattainable, unaffordable goal in view of the financial and operational challenges your organization currently faces? At GE, Jack Welch sincerely wanted to hear the truth — he hated it when people brought him sugar-coated information. Next, make a list of the behaviors you are currently measuring.

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Incentives Performance Review Welch Motivation 8

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.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 306