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ManagersRealm (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
"The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it." More than once people who worked at the company while Jack Welch was CEO at General Electric (NYSE: GE ) said they were surprised that he was aware of what they were doing. He, like all of us, had to figure out ways to make his people...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Interview with Business Tycoon and Magnate Mouli Cohen
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- On a recent stop-over in Monaco,
business magnate and entrepreneur Mouli Cohen gave an interview at OceAnco
(one of the largest yacht manufacturers in the world) in which he talked
about some of the important lessons he's learned over the years as well as
some very sage advice he has given to others based...
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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Glynnis MacNicol of Fishbowl New York reports that Fortune’s Silicon Valley bureau chief, Brent Schlender, has accepted the magazine’s buyout offer. MacNicol writes, “Schlender has been with Fortune since 1989 and written extensively on technology, management, and executive leadership, including cover stories on Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, and Louis Gerstner.” [...]...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
'By making your employees more accountable, you make your organization more
productive.' - Jack Welch
NEW YORK, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Holding people accountable for
results is the foundation of an organization's performance; it's management
101. Yet it appears there is a gap between knowing and doing.
A new study conducted by OnPoint Consulting
) surveyed 400 leaders and found that 40%
report...
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Marketing Nirvana (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Now, why didn’t I do this before! A perfect way to combine my love of management philosophy and all things Apple, by churning out a playlist of Jobs’ Top 10 quotes. What started it all, was this recent article in Fortune Magazine that comes on the heels of Apple being selected as America’s Most Admired Company. But [...]
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Stumbling and Mumbling (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Matthew Sinclair sets me a question: how can I reconcile my taste for liberal policy with a dislike of the kind of egoism to which western societies are disposed? His question is based upon the tendency for two ideas tend...
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Drydocks World, the shipbuilding and ship repairing unit of Dubai World expects to start operations at a fifth yard in the Southeast Asia region in 18 months' time, according to company officials. Dredging work will begin on the 174-hectare (430-acre
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Business Pundit (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Fortunes are rarely won by playing it safe. On the contrary, the biggest fortunes have been won by those willing to step outside the box and change the way the game is played. Following are twenty-five business innovators of the past, present, and future whose stories are different in many respects, but [...]
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Remember the scene from "Thank You for Smoking" when Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) goes to Hollywood to meet with the eccentric super agent Jeff Megall (played by Rob Lowe)? That's sort of how I felt upon entering the...
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RSS Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
We were recently meeting with one of the top executives of a Fortune 500 company and discussing the power and dynamics of social networks. The issue being discussed was whether creating a “social network for customer feedback” was a good or bad thing for the organization. One of the executives commented “I’d hate to empower our [...]
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AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
The sports airwaves were filled with former and current players and sports writers talking about former Phillies and current Houston Astros General Manager Ed Wade screaming at a player while the player was eating lunch for not immediately leaving his meal and meeting with the general manager and the team's manager. Did this have the desired result Wade was looking for?AdvertisementIf getting body...
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ElementalTruths.Com © (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Jack Welch is a business man with a speech impediment. Depending upon your source he is either the salvation of GE or a major cause of many of its shortfalls. But, regardless of who you listen to you will find one concept about the man consistently stated. Jack Welch is about the bottom line. How is it [...]
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Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
GE SIDESTEPS 1Q PLIGHT WITH 2Q RESULTS First the good news for management of General Electric (GE): Jeff Immelt isn’t going to have to hide in his office out of fear of his predecessor. As for Jack Welch himself, he won’t have to walk the halls of 30 Rock seeking some kind of redress. GE posted [...]
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Evolving Excellence (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Lean bloggers are not exactly the biggest fans of Jack Welch, but a couple weeks ago he penned a prescient column for Business Week discussing leadership in today's connected world. The internet has changed, or at least enabled, several aspects...
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Publisher's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In my review of James Lukaszewski's presentation at the IABC International Conference I commented: "Lukaszewski quotes John Kotter and Jim Collins, and recommends books like Jacked Up to better understand how CEOs and senior executive think and make decisions. He...
