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How Blowing up a Factory Changed Jack Welch

Leadership Freak

I asked Jack Welch, at the World Business Forum 2011, to talk about tipping points in his life and he said, “I blew up a (GE) factory the first year I was there.” He was in his mid-twenties and figured his career was over. “I I was running a little pilot plant. It all exploded, went [.].

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Behaviors and Mindsets that Ruin Careers

Leading Blog

Bill Lane was Jack Welch’s speechwriter for nearly two decades. In Losing It , he draws on his experiences primarily at GE to highlight the behaviors that are career killers. Naturally, Welch figures into much of this book. You need to ask yourself every day of your career, ‘Am I up to speed?

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What Any Leader Can Learn from Pope Francis

Next Level Blog

Krames has been involved in publishing more than 400 business books over the course of his career and has written books on business and government leaders like Jack Welch and Donald Rumsfeld. As Krames describes himself, he is the son of Holocaust survivors and believes that Pope Francis is the most authentic leader he has ever seen.

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Improving Leadership Bench Strength

N2Growth Blog

Or clogged, as most successor candidates do not perceive the significant opportunity for career progression at their companies. Design leadership career paths around a few diversified, not targeted, experience requirements. As Jack Welch said Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2020 Compilation

Leading Blog

Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Jack Welch: For a time, the most valuable CEO on earth by @geoffcolvin. Try These 2 Things by @Julie_WG. VIDEO: John Baldoni on Building Your Self-Awareness via @YouTube. How To Release The Grip of Backwards Thinking by @WScottCochrane.

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It’s the People, Stupid!

Lead Change Blog

Jack Welch had a stellar career as one of the great CEOs of all time. Competence is about doing work that’s challenging. It’s about learning new things and improving. Your challenge is to help people grow and develop. Bottom Line. When someone asked him to sum it up, he said, “In the end, it was all about the people.”.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Jack Welch the former head of GE built a reputation as one of the great chief executives of this era. Welch clearly not only understood the concept of organizational leverage through proper deployment of talent and resources He mastered it. That’s about it. Transfer ideas and allocate resources and get out of the way.&#