Leading Blog
AUGUST 16, 2012
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?
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 13, 2011
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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N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 8, 2020
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.
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
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.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2018
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.”.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 21, 2011
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.&#
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
Because as Jack Welch, former CEO of GE has said, It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. I experienced this personally in my corporate career. The leadership part HAS to come first. EVERY time.
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