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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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.&#

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Nicely done Mike!

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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. Winning is the biggest force multiplier that a leader has. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

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With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.] Social Media Marketing an hour a day – Dave Evens 7.

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Jack Welch’s Approach to Breaking Down Silos Still Works

Harvard Business Review

Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was largely championed by Jack Welch, then CEO of GE. Welch’s “boundaryless organization” should seemingly be the de facto reality for most companies. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business Review

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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