Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

That is All Jesse Harriot, Monster Thinking : 2011 Job Market Trends HR Introvert : Time for Due Diligence on Personal Objectivity Tim Sanders, Sanders Says : Three Lists to Make for 2011 Rachel Suff, XpertHR : New Year's Resolution: Boost Poor Performance?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

 Today I would like to highlight a great resource that comes out each month from LinkUp that will help you keep tabs on which direction the employment market is moving. " Bottom line, if you are in the talent management game in one form or another, it is important to have your finger on the pulse of employment market.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Rob Tucker, Reading About Leading : How to Encourage Others to Take Ownership - Sadly, over the past decade, the idea of employee ownership has become yet another detestable buzzword espoused by disconnected senior leadership and plastered on internal marketing collateral.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

 Tom implores you to stop viewing the world and the economy in a state of "nuclear winter" and take action NOW to grab market share from your competitors who are stuck whining and complaining about the economy. Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisa : Succession Planning. Fascinating. Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisa : Succession Planning.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

 The folks at Monster Thinking are in the trenches of the recruiting and career industry and are highly in tune with what is happening in the employment market.  The folks at Monster Thinking are in the trenches of the recruiting and career industry and are highly in tune with what is happening in the employment market.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

Most of us are familiar with the concept of "white space" derived from the fields of marketing and graphical design.  Most of us are familiar with the concept of "white space" derived from the fields of marketing and graphical design. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

Prahalad, but you'll also get the thoughts and opinions of business professionals from successful start-ups, non-profits, and boutique enterprises that serve very specific niches in their respective markets.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

  Financial markets seem to be in perpetual chaos, our environment is in peril due to natural and man made disasters, and feelings of uncertainty abound in our everyday lives.    Together, the newsletter and blog are a powerful one-two punch to knock the fear out of your life.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

  One unique feature of their knowledge resource center that I particularly like is that in addition to publishing great primary research, they also compile secondary market data and research and organize it into convenient and easy to read tables and graphs that make following government data and macroeconomic trends a breeze. 

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

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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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. Our communications technologies have dramatically improved, and we have instantaneous access to massive amounts of information. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. downsizing, divestitures, program cancellations) several times over the course of just a few years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

While the incumbent customer lexicon wasn’t abandoned, it neither drove nor literally defined how marketers and innovators talked about the people they were serving. Welch, says Lane, ruthlessly and relentlessly reviewed ever senior level presentation his top team made there.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Jack Welch laid off thousands, "de-layering," as some people called it. For example if you are a financial analyst, consider other analyst positions in your company, perhaps in market research or sales. It wasn't long before she was promoted and given the opportunity of a career in information technology. It's a different world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Consider GE during Jack Welch’s tenure, Trimble Navigation under Steve Berglund, or IBM under Lou Gerstner. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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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. 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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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Peter Drucker reportedly once said that the biggest curse for any business was twenty years of success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

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. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. This includes having an in-house recruiting firm to locate the best engineering talent for the start-ups it funds, a huge boon in a wildly competitive job market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Peter Drucker reportedly once said that the biggest curse for any business was twenty years of success.

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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. And your sales and marketing departments aren’t working at cross-purposes, each with its own view of what success looks like.

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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 believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Then I met three people — a Dutch CEO, a Welch education expert and a German scientist — who saw things in a very different way. The marketing model changes. When I would listen to CEOs, I heard them say things like we're going to use five percent less materials in five years or make a product with 10 percent less material.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. At HCL Technologies, and India-based IT company, the corporate culture springs at least partly from a broader Asian idea of cooperative action. Many-market organization.

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CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

Even politicians these days use books as part of their own marketing campaign and messaging strategies. She supports first-time and seasoned authors in their book writing, publishing and marketing endeavors through coaching and training in her “Your Book Is Your Hook!” Technology and its role in travel 2.0 consulting practice.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. Welch Leadership Center at Crotonville where leaders from other organizations (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? and has studied emerging business and technology trends. You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bravo Nando… Jack Welch - The former Chairman and CEO of GE reminded us of the value of candor. Candor, clarity, humility, passion and a heart for service characterize Jack Welch. He spared us the business speak and rhetoric and said things that all leaders needed to hear.

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