Leading Blog
JANUARY 9, 2025
Jack Welch on simplicity: For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple. Source: Noel Tichy and Ram Charan: Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence: An Interview with Jack Welch , Harvard Business Review * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Insecure managers create complexity.
Leadership Freak
MAY 12, 2013
Image source: me Jack Welch and candor come together. It didn’t take long for the topic of candor to come up at the dinner I attended after the Chick-fil-A Leadercast. 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.” Here’s […].
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Next Level Blog
MARCH 4, 2020
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.
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
With typical candor and color, Jack Welch said, “We always had one hell-of-ah gossip session after every meeting.” (ELP, ELP, 2011, NYC) At least two things happened at meetings Jack Welch attended. First, the agenda happened. Second, and more importantly, an H.R. meeting happened during and after.
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 [.].
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 30, 2014
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.
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! My main job was developing talent. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.” — Jack Welch. Morgan McCall. Helen Keller.
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