Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Because as Jack Welch, former CEO of GE has said, It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. In other words, we can’t put the business cart before the leadership horse. Leadership' EVERY time.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

And there are a very large number of middle market search firms who are hired by HR to find new managers and mid-level executives for their companies. A rare exception to the “go outside for talent” mantra was General Electric under the reign of CEO Jack Welch. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.” ~Jack Welch.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. Jack Welch led GE to some impressive numbers. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift. I don’t think if Welch stayed on, it would have been much different. What Welch built was not sustainable. That’s baptism by fire.

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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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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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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

“Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations.” ~ Jack Welch One of the best ways to strengthen your company as a whole is to devote attention to developing your employee talent. Talent identification and management begin with The Four P’s.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Rethinking Managing and Leading in Real-Time by @ArtPetty. Leadership Insight: How to Spot Fear by @KateNasser. The Power of a Strong Leadership Foundation by @DougConant. Leadership by What Example? Self-Awareness and Leadership: The Ins and Outs via @DDIworld. How to Find Thanks and Gratitude by @JesseLynStoner.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Jim Shaffer, author of The Leadership Solution , believes that top companies are guided by these three best principles: They value their people. It stats with leadership. It’s driven home with leadership.”. Communication is managed as a business process. Jack Welch says, “It’s not a speech… or a videotape.

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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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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. There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. Leaders should always be working to develop new leaders, helping their employees develop the skillsets that will allow them to effectively manage others. Q&A sessions where managers can ask for clarity on points of confusion.

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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.” Cy Wakeman of Reality-Based Leadership provided Stuck With a Bad Leader?

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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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Leadership Freak

MARCH 27, 2012

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

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It’s unfortunate because I believe that everyone not only has the ability to be leader but also the responsibility to make a leadership contribution in the role they are in. But in this context, they usually associate leadership with a management-type position. Leadership Gets Harder. Leadership Gets Easier.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

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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.

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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. Yet, it’s not the same in every case—likability does not necessarily equal followership when it comes to leadership. In leadership, likability looks different depending upon the context.

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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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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 3, 2025

By possessing a disciplined set of principles and focusing on carefully developing her leadership skills throughout the process, she was able to achieve her goal of becoming #1 in the translation market that was already dominated by established competitors. Jack Welch Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.

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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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Who is your favorite leadership role model? Thought Leaders Share Their Favorite Leadership Role Models. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership suggests A. John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement suggests the late W. This is the theme of my book, Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 7, 2010

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 10, 2015

That seemingly innocuous decision led to something that ultimately changed the course of my writing, my leadership, and my life. Brown starts his review by noting: “There are no universal leadership characteristics,” they write, adding that modeling yourself after successful leaders also doesn’t work.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people. Then we look for tools and systems to manage those relationships and expand our capacity for more relationships, and they can add an additional layer of complexity. Always look forward to your thoughts Paul.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2008

Most of us have heard of the concept of "leader's teaching leaders" - Noel Tichy commercialized the concept in his 2002 book, The Leadership Engine. Jack Welch was known for the amount of time he spent in Crotinville sparing with high-potential managers in "the pit". Involve leaders at all levels in a needs assessment.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 14, 2011

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 16, 2010

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

I believe that the Pope''s avuncular way, his humility, and his humanity are traits that are not often associated with leadership. But that is only the beginning of the Pope Francis leadership memoir. Krames is the author of LEAD WITH HUMILITY: 12 LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM POPE FRANCIS. Krames leadership Pope Francis vision'

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

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