N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. I've found that they teach different lessons when you hold them up against the background of your new experiences. Here's a link to a recent "re-reading" list. link] mikemyatt Thanks for sharing your reading list Wally.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Embrace your organization’s humanity.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. But they need to figure out what to tune out — and learn to manage Wall Street rather than being managed by it.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

Posted by: Tim Welch | August 03, 2010 at 12:46 AM Excellent points! Posted by: Nike Shox Turmoil | September 02, 2010 at 06:17 AM Likewise, a lot of creatives are going freelance because agencies don't want to pay account handlers / planners / project managers. Welcome home and God's Blessings to you and your family.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

After Jacobs' revival, top corporate managers at Danaher got religious about process improvement — so much so that they created their own version of Lean: the Danaher Business System. But the key to success is a management process for focusing on business imperatives called "policy deployment," from the Japanese term " Hoshin Kanri."

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Consider GE during Jack Welch’s tenure, Trimble Navigation under Steve Berglund, or IBM under Lou Gerstner. When CEOs lack this expertise, they are more likely to manage R&D “by the numbers,” despite the fact that those numbers are more elusive than those for capital and advertising.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bravo Nando… Jack Welch - The former Chairman and CEO of GE reminded us of the value of candor. Candor, clarity, humility, passion and a heart for service characterize Jack Welch. He spared us the business speak and rhetoric and said things that all leaders needed to hear.

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