Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.”

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. By Jack Welch. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

In an adjacent office was a colleague who had written something like 12 books and was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of organizational innovation. Compared with my colleague, I had accomplished so little over such a long career; my two measly books were more like an embarrassment, given his output.

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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. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

In 1999, CEO Chad Holliday talked with Larry Bossidy and Jack Welch at GE, and decided to launch a Six Sigma program. Training in process improvement methods also helps change the way people think, and doing a rotation as a Black Belt at Staples is seen as a way to develop important competencies and progress a career.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bravo Nando… Jack Welch - The former Chairman and CEO of GE reminded us of the value of candor. Candor, clarity, humility, passion and a heart for service characterize Jack Welch. Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. 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. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Earlier in my career, I had the chance to visit leaders such as Jack Welch (GE), Paul O’Neill (Alcoa), and Ralph Larsen (Johnson & Johnson). This innovation developed because the frontline staff had strong, trusting, and supportive relationships with the patients they cared for and had strong improvement skills.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? While they are focused on optimization, their shareholders continue to demand that they pay out greater dividends or engage in larger share buy backs instead of investing their profits for future innovation. ” -Jack Welch. Rule the World.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires. Welch Leadership Center at Crotonville where leaders from other organizations (e.g.,

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I admired him and was pleased when later in his career he managed the Tigers to a World Series Championship as well. Jack Welch had some of it, but the sports coaches were a law unto themselves. The Big Red Machine had great players, but they also had a fabulous manager. I always liked George “Sparky&# Anderson.

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Women in the LEAD

MARCH 7, 2010

Debbe Debbe Kennedy, founder, president and CEO Women in the Lead   at the Global Dialogue Center Leadership Solutions Companies Berrett-Koehler author, Putting Our Differences to Work The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership, and High Performance It's a New DAY! Together we will create the difference we are seeking!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Second, it at least feels as if this sort of behavior and the career consequences that result seem to be occurring more frequently now. First, as my friend Bob Sutton noted in a conversation, these behaviors seem to be confined mostly to men. We seldom hear of powerful women who can't control their urges.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Earlier this month, in a spirited defense of the forced curve, Jack Welch advocated rating people on lists of competencies so that you can, in his words, “let them know where they stand.” Two hundred stations, and the innovation of lightweight, leather cantinas to carry the mail westward. The Pony Express was the answer.

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