Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? Here is the press release from the Hay study: The 8 th annual Hay Group study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. 68 percent. 47 percent.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. 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. Jack literally held court – he was marvelous.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 8, 2013

The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Joshua Lerner Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How to combine two traditional models “within a powerful system that consistently and efficiently produces new ideas” By nature, books about innovation should contribute something new and/or something better to our (..)

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. link] Lisa Welch Hi Mike: Thanks for taking something so confusing and adding clarity by doing little more than telling the truth. Thanks for the great insights Rob. Thanks for sharing! Nicely done Mike!

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Would that same CHRO be as successful at a firm where the culture was more about innovation and less about continuity? 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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. I've found that they teach different lessons when you hold them up against the background of your new experiences.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution Lisa Bodell Bibliomotion (2013) How to envision the future you want to create, make the necessary connections, and meanwhile engage in assumption reversal Obviously, it would be idiotic to kill an entire company or eliminate all of its status quo.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Michael Carty, XpertHR : Why It's Time for HR to 'Step to the Front' in 2011 Drew Tarvin, Humor's' Office : 5 Work Resolutions You Shouldn't Make (And One You Should) Kaihan Krippendorff, Fast Company : Five Innovative New Year's Resolutions Roberta Matuson, Fast Company : Will 2011 Be Your Best Year Ever ?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Iconic CEO Jack Welch came up with a way to bridge the generation gap in 1999 and yet almost 20 years later 86% of companies still haven’t caught on. In the late 1990’s GE’s iconic CEO, Jack Welch, did. Generation bashing is tearing organizations apart. Here’s a simple way to put an end to it.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Jack Welch had some of it, but the sports coaches were a law unto themselves. Reply Ken Carroll November 8, 2010 at 1:08 am There’s something great about the old style leaders, espeically in sports. They had a no-nonsense integrity that is often lost in the slickness of modern business. Much to be learned from them.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.”

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 11, 2022

When GE replaced Jack Welch there was a three-man race for the position between Robert Nardelli, James McNerny, and eventual successor Jeff Immelt. After Immelt got the job, both Nardelli and McNerney left for the top jobs at Home Depot and 3M respectively.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

  Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.   Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

 As listed above The Conference Board's mission statement provides a clear purpose for existence and its carefully defined values of relevance, openness, collaboration, innovation, and integrity provide crystal clear guidance on how it will execute this mission.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. By Jack Welch. Welch is perhaps the most famous CEO-turned-leadership-author and a vocal advocate of HR. Human Resource Champions (1996). By David Ulrich.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

And, of course, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric has said, "If you don''t have a competitive advantage, don''t compete." The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks". Today''s Wall Street Journal reports that two small market share players, Nokia and Microsoft, in the mobile marketplace may not be a good investment. Related articles.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 30, 2010

Our guests have embraced collaboration and innovation that impacts the way we all do business both now and in the future. Our guests have embraced collaboration and innovation that impacts the way we all do business both now and in the future.  Saying that Bryan is involved in the HR profession is a bit of an understatement!

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Each morning you will be delivered a handful of stories on a variety of leadership topics such as strategic management, innovation, employee development and succession planning, managing in a global economy, and sustaining a competitive edge - just to name a few.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

As Jack Welch so skillfully demonstrated while he led GE, Market Leadership is the one real strategy that has long-term staying power. H mandated that GE would be No. 2 in every market it was in, or it would get out. It was a “Market Leader or nothing” strategy, and it served GE well.

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

For a number of years, Enron was cited as one of America’s most innovating and daring companies. Jack Welch calls it “candor.” Great Leaders Never Compromise Their Honesty and Integrity By Cheating. There are many examples of temporary winners who won by cheating. And they always tell the truth.

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

So far Peters has posted close to 20 videos that explore a variety of ways to pursue excellence both personally and professionally including servant leadership, personal branding, innovation, performance management, and thriving during the recession - just to name a few.   Not big on online video?   Not big on online video?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 3, 2011

Chick-fil-A says leaders can express themselves with five voices (described below in Chick-fil-A's words) and each will be addressed during the Leadercast: Influence Purpose Hope Service Innovation • Voice of Influence - A voice of influence can alter opinions and sway perspectives.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 11, 2011

Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal Robert Simons Harvard Business School Press (1994) I read this book when it was first published in 1994 and recently re-read it, curious to see how well it has held up. My conclusion? Very well indeed. What I find especially noteworthy is [.].

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2014

Recommended Resource – The Welch Way. Talent Value: Statistics show nearly eight million jobs have been lost by men and, for the first time in this nation’s history, women now hold a majority of the nation’s jobs. The post 5 Ways Women in the Private Sector Can Turn the Economy Around appeared first on StrategyDriven.

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Women in the LEAD

MARCH 7, 2010

Debbe Debbe Kennedy, founder, president and CEO Women in the Lead   at the Global Dialogue Center Leadership Solutions Companies Berrett-Koehler author, Putting Our Differences to Work The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership, and High Performance It's a New DAY! Terrill Welch - A woman behind women www.awomanbehindwomen.ca

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 29, 2020

The ranking of employees was all the rage in the Jack Welch era, with the famous GE CEO encouraging managers to rank employees as either A players, B players or C players. New research from Bocconi University explores how the ranking of employees affects their willingness to collaborate effectively as a team. Working as a team.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. We’re here to chat about Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes. How do those innovative leaders actually help inspire that collaboration more often? Sometimes they’re researchers or scholars. And we interview them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. Accordingly, Jack Welch’s drive to Six Sigma involved an intense focus on controlling costs, quality, and execution on both the infrastructure and behavioral sides (e.g., In fact, we defined growth as a process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Yet leaders of both companies persevered despite these headwinds, setbacks, and challenges.

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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. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Diversity has also been found to drive growth and innovation, so companies that hire only for a specific type of employee might actually fall behind its competitors. A company that lacks diversity in its workforce also doesn’t perform as well on financial returns, reports McKinsey.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

In an adjacent office was a colleague who had written something like 12 books and was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of organizational innovation. When I passed his office and he wasn't there, I was sure that he was meeting with Jack Welch or someone famous. He had a beautiful summer house near Cape Cod.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship.

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