Nathan Magnuson
OCTOBER 7, 2013
I first heard Jack Welch speak at the Leadercast Seminar in 2013. Even though he was over a decade into retirement and in his upper 70s, Welch’s rich enthusiasm for business and leadership took the audience (and the moderator) by storm.
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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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
DECEMBER 8, 2020
A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. How do they affect Leadership? First, leadership is more complex.
General Leadership
MARCH 19, 2014
Jack Welch. Balanced leadership requires continuous, delicate adjustments to maintain homeostasis in your organization. Balance is critical to good leadership and essential for a healthy organization. A piece of advice I once received upon assuming leadership of an organization: “Fire someone within the first week!”
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. That was a big takeaway for me.
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