Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

Jack Welch on communicating simply: “For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple. Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Trout Rivkin Welch Open-book 258

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

Welcome to the August 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, said, “When you were made a leader, you weren’t given a crown; you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.” Follow Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2012

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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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Rethinking Managing and Leading in Real-Time by @ArtPetty. READ, Caveat emptor, CEO by @TedKinni A short list of questions can help leaders avoid the potentially harmful consequences of flawed management studies. Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Leadership Insight: How to Spot Fear by @KateNasser.

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Self-aware Welch Godin Crisis 256

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. In addition, executives are investing more time in succession management activities.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 28, 2011

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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Management Welch McCarthy Organizational Behavior 231

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She explains why you need not only passion and purpose to win big, but also: a willingness to take decisive action grit sweat equity determination positive attitude Elting’s fascinating story began with her entirely self-funded business launch that started in a dorm room.

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Reis Welch Competitive Advantage Drucker 122

Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2012

Guest post by business strategy and management education expert Trish Gorman (learn more about Trish at the end of this post). Most of us realize that high-performing teams are not really “managed.” Keeping three things in mind will help you move from serving as a glorified meeting manager to becoming a true team leader.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 18, 2018

Duryea : Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and even Thomas Edison are a few of the great visionary leaders in their respective industries. What made them such great leaders was not just one aspect of their management style or their respective innovations. Guest post by David A. Great leaders know core business model vision.

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Business Model Welch Transportation Operations 234

Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Jack Welch Dianne had always felt like more of a wallflower than a leader. If you want to aspire toward a career in leadership, work toward building and developing these characteristics. Leadership requires enormous drive, hard work, good stress-management skills, and enthusiasm. Great leaders have Integrity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I’ve recently had the opportunity to help design a brand-new open-enrollment Woman’s Leadership Development Program to be offered through the University of New Hampshire’s Executive Development Program. Here are 10 Elements of a Great Woman’s Leadership Development Program: 1. Start with a solid research foundation.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

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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Career Welch Learning-by-Doing Politics 285

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Why is it important to develop future leaders within your company? Continuity of company culture, labor shortages, and an unexpected death of a senior manager are just a few important reasons. Redefining Succession Planning for Mid-Market Companies. Start Now.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Irv Hockaday, former president and CEO of Hallmark adds, “A CEO’s primary responsibilities are to provide vision, to motivate employees, and to develop leaders. Communication is managed as a business process. Shaffer says that while it must be managed as a business process, it spans all of the other business processes.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 224

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 16, 2011

I like to start off each week by featuring five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere that I found to be particularly good reading. Happy Monday! Here are my picks for the week of May 9th - 15th, 2011.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room. Who are these people?

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Charisma Welch Stage-Gate Self-aware 309

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 7, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

I like to start off each week by highlighting five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere that I found to be especially good reading during the past week. Below are my picks for January 24th - 30th, 2011.

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Blog Welch Competitive Advantage Talent Management 176

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Priority number two is team building and talent management. Jack Welch the former head of GE built a reputation as one of the great chief executives of this era. What does a CEO really do anyway?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2015

Cavanagh (Foreword) Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Institute; 1st edition (2004) How to develop leaders who have character, competence, knowledge, and results-driven initiative I recently re-read this book, curious to know to what extent […]. Marine Corps Book of Strategy (Tactics for Managing Confrontation)'

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Guest post from Cassandra Frangos : We had a handy rule of thumb for hiring in my first job in management consulting. Likewise, the aggressive and purportedly overbearing Jack Welch was highly respected and emulated, but likability was not a key ingredient for leading the massively complex global conglomerate.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 10, 2012

“Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people,” Jack Welch. Most leaders play not-to-lose rather than playing to win, especially in large organizations. The more we have to lose the more we play not-to-lose. What we protect owns, limits, and controls us. What we risk propels us forward. When to risk: An [.].

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Welch Organization Goal Motivation 232

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2008

Jack Welch was known for the amount of time he spent in Crotinville sparing with high-potential managers in "the pit". Here's 10 practical ways to get leaders involved in leadership development programs: 1. Get input from executive sponsors, your target audience , and managers of your target audience.

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Leadership Development Development Welch Leadership 120

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2013

A long, long time ago, back in the days when Jack Welch was leading GE, organizations starting using a “9 box” performance and potential matrix for succession planning and leadership development. HR and managers that have tried the 9-box figure if it works as a tool to discuss talent, then way don’t we use it for _?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 3, 2010

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Leadership Development Development McCarthy Leadership 100

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

J EFFREY IMMELT took over General Electric from Jack Welch at a time of increasing instability. If you can instill that psychology in your management group, you can get transformation." To create an adaptable culture, you need adaptable leaders. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 27, 2012

John Bell suggests, when excitable equals passionate, we admire Jack Welch, Steve Jobs, and Howard Shultz. According to the input from my facebook page, being “unexcitable” isn’t the most admired leadership quality. All of which are famous or notorious for their passion. Perhaps it’s a matter of definition and context? “I

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire executive coaches? These are presented in rank order of importance: Conflict management. Mentoring and developing talent. Leadership training improves your ability to quickly manage problems before they get worse. By: Gary Cohen. “

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning and Development Opportunities. When employers invest in creating a mentoring culture – that is, a culture that values learning, development, and connectedness – the benefits inure to the greater workplace. As Center for Mentoring Excellence founder, Dr. Lois J. They feel more connected and engaged.

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Mentor How To Welch Learning-by-Doing 97

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Hollywood has the Oscars, Television the Emmys, publishing has the Pulitzer prizes, and leadership development has its own annual awards. That’s because, unlike many of the high tech sexy companies that dominate the business headlines, companies that develop great leaders just quietly go about it and deliver great results year over year.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

But in this context, they usually associate leadership with a management-type position. You’ll have more decisions to make, more uncertainty to negotiate and more change to manage. The higher you go in an organization, the more you become responsible for. That means there is more to stress over, it’s true.

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Leadership Welch Bureaucracy Influence 173

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? According to a 2019 Conference Board survey , the most common reasons CEOs hire an executive coach are leading teams and developing people; executive presence or influencing others; and emotional intelligence.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? According to a 2019 Conference Board survey , the most common reasons CEOs hire an executive coach are leading teams and developing people; executive presence or influencing others; and emotional intelligence.

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