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Hot Seat: Jeff Immelt at GE

Leading Blog

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift. Tech start-ups define success, especially in the first decade, on how well they acquire customers, build capability, and penetrate their emerging markets.

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Six Weeks of U.S. Stock Market Decline: Now What?

Coaching Tip

The market's last seven-week stretch of losses began in May 2001, as the dot-com bubble deflated," reports The Associated Press. As for why stocks are falling, most observers agree: Blame "weaker hiring, industrial output, and a moribund housing market." EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. As for the U.S.

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product. Fight all new players or acquire them.

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6 Defining Values of a Leadership Culture

N2Growth Blog

in 2001, I worked for a boutique strategy consulting firm out of Princeton, NJ that developed and delivered high-cost elaborate strategic plans. I was already delivering strategic planning, sales and marketing strategy and leadership recruiting services, all of which helped grow organizations, but the culture cog was missing.

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The 9 (or 99?) Ps of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sander Flaum: Back in 2001, when I was asked to lead a forum in leadership at what is now the Fordham Gabelli Graduate School of Business, the concept was to bring noted leaders (business and otherwise) into a classroom where they could share their experiences and insights with MBA students.

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Corporate Recruiters Rank Communication as the Most Highly Valued Business Skill

leaderCommunicator

Since 2001, the Corporate Recruiters Survey has been produced annually by the GMAC, a global nonprofit education group of leading graduate business schools and the administrator of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s. Best practice only caught up with the great thinker’s ideas in the 1990s.