Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Despite being jacked up by none other than Jack Welch, there is a very slim chance indeed of anyone taking more than a passing note of Bill Lane's take on what made GE one of the fast-growing, glib-talking companies during Welch's time.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
SILVERMAN CHANNELING JACK WELCHBy PETER LAURIA Loading new images... Posted: 3:17 amJuly 17, 2008Don't blame Ben Silverman or Marc Graboff for NBC Universal's dismal financial performance this year - the co-chairmen of the company's broadcast network and television studio have increased profits by over 50 percent in their division. Realizing that it's going to be a long slog out of the ratings...
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...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
> Former GE CEO Jack Welch is getting pretty proficient at this guest anchoring thing. On Wednesday he fills in on MSNBC's Morning Joe. > TMZ asks , "Where in the World is Matt Lauer 's New Bathing Suit?" (or something like that). > It's 80's week at Fox & Friends, featuring blasts from TV, sports, politics and music pasts (The Smithereens tomorrow on the plaza!). Today, the F&F'ers...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: And welcome to a special edition of HANNITY & COLMES on a very sad day for all of us in the news business. Our respected colleague, our friend Tim Russert, the moderator of "Meet the Press," the Washington bureau chief of NBC News, has sadly passed away at the age of 58. Now we all watched with heavy hearts as Tom Brokaw made that sad announcement. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TOM BROKAW,...
Business Pundit (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
... the rules (even though you might find yourself on the wrong side of the law once in a while). 1. Jack Welch Named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune Magazine in 1999, Jack Welch is perhaps most famous for streamlining GE, reducing management from 29 levels to only six, closing businesses, and firing a significant percentage of his subordinates. Despite his strong, seemingly...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
NEW YORK — Jack Welch, the hard-driving former chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric, had a saying: “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” Gary Williams would tend to agree. Williams, the founder of wRatings, an independent research firm that annually ranks the most competitive retail and consumer goods companies, believes a firm’s success rests...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
... with the confidence, charisma, and mature looks and swagger that could best be described as Jack Welch meets Charlton Heston. When we met, his red necktie matched red socks, and he wore a huge 1996 New York Yankees World Series ring (he knows Steinbrenner) – a conversation starter, for sure.Though I started talking baseball, Fisher quickly changed the subject business. More specifically,...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
... psychology, and illustrates it with references to noted leaders like former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, Lincoln, Hitler and Subcomandante Marcos. (George Bush's presidency provides a recurring object lesson in bad leadership.) The author takes a skeptical, down-to-earth view of leadership fads and hype. But he can't quite break free of mystical notions like vision or vague buzz...
RSS Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
... and employees to “openly discuss and share the very issues that ingrained bureaucracy has caused.”Jack Welch, The legendary leader who transformed GE writes in his column in Business Week: “That may sound harsh, but hidebound behavior is a business-killer: Damages? How about deadens? That’s a better word to describe what bureaucracy does; it sucks the life out of a business. It turns...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
... did it all come to this for Kwame Kilpatrick?Perhaps we should blame it on Lee Iacocca.Or on CEOs Jack Welch, Martha Stewart or Enron's Jeff Skilling.Blame it on our infatuation with the cult of the charismatic CEO and ultimately on the infatuation of the charismatic CEO with himself.Iacocca, the glib automotive icon who led Chrysler Corp. through two near-bankruptcies, and Welch,...
AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... unpleasant situations, which is with respect and dignity. The great managers of the last century, Jack Welch, of General Electric, and Alfred Sloan, of General Motors, were known for their passion succeed, but not at the expense of someone's self-respect.I have worked for screamers, who have thought they taught an employee a lesson only to find out later that the employee schemed...
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 [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. NBC's Silverman Channeling Jack Welch ( NYP ) Jonathan Silverman and Marc Graboff decided to focus less on programming during their first year on the job and more on squeezing additional profit out of NBC Entertainment. "We're managing for margins and not for ratings," said Silverman. The financial belt-tightening Silverman and...
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...
