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Jack Welch on the Cruelest Environments

Leadership Freak

Image source: me Jack Welch and candor come together. In his usual no-nonsense fashion, Jack said, “If your employees don’t know where they stand, you have no right to call yourself a manager.” It didn’t take long for the topic of candor to come up at the dinner I attended after the Chick-fil-A Leadercast. Here’s […].

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English Football (Soccer) and Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

Simple really, rather than spend millions on youth soccer and developing the next generation of superstars, they go out and pay millions for players from outside of England, because they have neglected to focus on developing local talent. EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT. Many great CEOs came up through the GE Executive Development system.

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25 Great Leadership Development Quotes

Great Leadership By Dan

However, I did enjoy combing through all of those sites and picking out what I thought to be the 25 best leadership development quotes. To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management.

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How Can You Further Develop Your Talent? 7 Key Steps

Career Advancement

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. Leaders should always be working to develop new leaders, helping their employees develop the skillsets that will allow them to effectively manage others. How can you develop your talent?

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What I Learned from Jack Welch

Next Level Blog

In case you’re not familiar with it, the Pit is the well at the bottom of an amphitheater style room that seats about a hundred people on GE’s Crotonville leadership development campus in the Hudson River Valley. You’ve probably read that Welch passed away this week at the age of 84.

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Leaders vs. Managers

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's the 2nd in a series of guest posts by Professor Jim Clawson , one of our Executive Development Program instructors for a custom program we offer on Leading Change. In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders. Leaders vs. Managers. Hope you've enjoyed it.

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Behaviors and Mindsets that Ruin Careers

Leading Blog

Bill Lane was Jack Welch’s speechwriter for nearly two decades. Naturally, Welch figures into much of this book. Of Related Interest: 5 Leadership Lessons: Inside Welch's Communication Revolution at GE. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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