Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? Actively manages a pool of successors for mission-critical roles. Views employees in new start-up or innovation areas as having equal importance to those driving operational improvement. I’ll need to talk to Hay and find what they’ve been up to.

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Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

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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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

Terry Starbucker

MAY 10, 2015

At the time I was also a corporate Senior Vice President of Operations trying to hone my craft as a leader, but for those first few months I really hadn’t been motivated to write too much about that, especially since I intentionally used a fake name (yes, that’s where Starbucker came from! They want to be led by a person.

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Welch Leadership Review Learning-by-Doing 150

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

It’s written by professors from Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and Simmons School of Management. With all due respect to Jack Welch , the facts tell a different story: According to 20-First’s 3rd Annual Global Gender Scorecard , 90% of Executive Committee positions are still filled by men, with only 10% by women.

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Leadership Development Development Committee Leadership 249

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .  In just over 15 minutes you will learn a lot of important information about the upcoming flu season - I know I certainly did.

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System Human Resources Presenteeism Blog 167

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Larger companies are often owned by shareholders who are removed from day-to-day operations of the company and therefore more likely to demand performance accountability from the management.

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Company Human Resources Welch Blog 140

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports. Why is that?

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Skills How To Audience Welch 169

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. The generation we call the 'silent' generation and the early Boomer cohort exemplified the 'sold my soul to the company store' gospel.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

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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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  As a service to you I have narrowed down this collection of reading material to highlight five blog posts from the week of August 2nd to August 8th, 2010 that I found to be especially noteworthy.  Enjoy!

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Here are five great posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere to kick off your work week and help you Maximize Possibility in your organization. License.  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  Enjoy!

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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Numerous forecasting models are based off economic indicators like the Consumer Confidence Index and it is critical that you follow and understand how these leading indicators relate to your organization's operations. License. .

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Here are my top blog picks for the week June 7th - 13th, 2010.  Enjoy!

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 100

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .   After illustrating the clear benefits of using checklists to prevent simple errors, Gawande goes on to describe how to implement them into your professional life.   I highly recommend that you put this book on your reading list.

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Human Resources Blog Books Welch 100

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours. This is difficult for CEOs who can’t be fully transparent with the people they manage.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours. This is difficult for CEOs who can’t be fully transparent with the people they manage.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours. This is difficult for CEOs who can’t be fully transparent with the people they manage.

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Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About the Authors Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership , is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. Through his seminars, lectures, videos, and books, Dr. Deming shared a vision of systems well-managed. Their efforts are interdependent.”. Edwards Deming, The New Economics.

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Deming Welch System Open-book 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Running a country calls for a sophisticated array of leadership skills — from shaping strategy to building a team to managing day-to-day operations. In fact if consultants-turned-managers don't go beyond these core consulting characteristics, they are likely to fail.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Earlier in his career, as a business unit manager, he recognized that he must cut costs. But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Not only were costs cut, but operations became more focused and simplified. Prime the Pump.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. Of course, leaders, too, can set a different tone: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Steve Jobs all did that. Let’s take the 1990s.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management. We took it online, we built learning management systems to make it accessible. I had this interview once with this guy who is this chief operating officer of this great big organization. I travel quite a bit in the different operating units.

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Chief Operating Officer Learning-by-Doing Innovation Books 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

The beginning of January is a natural choice point for every management team, whether or not you've experienced a Christmas miracle. At this crucial moment, they could have decided to build on their December success and create a sustainably faster and more effective process; or they could have returned to their old patterns.

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Welch Energy Banking Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Happily though, the era of shareholder value maximization , which arguably started in the early 1980s when Jack Welch pronounced that General Electric’s primary purpose was to maximize returns for its investors, seems to be reaching its final days. When these are in sync with the creation of customer value, beautiful things will happen.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In the 20th century, a select group of leaders — General Motor's Alfred Sloan, HP's David Packard and Bill Hewlett, and GE's Jack Welch — set the standard for the way corporations are run. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

But that hasn't been the case at Danaher, DuPont, and Staples, which have continually improved their operations over many years, to the delight of their customers. 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

JUNE 12, 2012

Within two years after becoming chief executive of General Electric in 1981, Jack Welch completed one of his most far-reaching initiatives: reducing the number of GE business units from about 150 to 15. In effect, Welch set out to focus the company on the businesses where it had the potential for greatness, and to jettison everything else.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Employees who align with a company’s core values are more likely to intuitively know how they should think and act, to be more motivated to go the extra mile when needed, and to support the company’s operations and aspirations. ” With so much at stake, companies need to tread carefully.

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Welch Reputation Diversity Media 14

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. General Electric Operations'

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Former GE CEO Jack Welch, writing in Business Week , characterized the nonprofit sector as a "foreign land" in which performance is not a priority and employees are guaranteed "lifetime employment." How will that tension be managed or resolved? Too often people equate "business thinking" with effectiveness.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Most managers take it for granted that the world has become much more volatile and complex and that we need to constantly adapt. In his mind, it is just a way for managers to get out of making hard, dangerous choices. The simple fact is that managers talk of increased VUCA because that is what they see every day.

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Strategy Uncertainty Welch Rogers 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

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. Senior management knew this was an issue.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating.

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. When you think and operate in unique ways internally, you can produce the unique identity and image you desire externally. Just as brands differ, there is no single right culture.

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Brand Company Merchandising Operations 9