Danger: Talent Management Can Be DivisiveElitist Recognition Is Just as DivisiveExcellent post. You couldn't be more correct in stating: "Done badly, there’s potential for a massive rift to emerge between the ‘talented’ — the ‘hi-pos’ high potentials — and the ordinary, tellingly defined recently as as ‘the po-pos –passed over...
Useful Commute: Awaken Your Inner Jack WelchNot only JackMost of the leaders who came for the first time are like this - take M Gandhi or Business excellent leader N Moorthy or the Past President of India A Kalam... this is a spark when it happens you may have to...
Executives from Yahoo!, American Airlines, Arrow Electronics, Hilton Hotels, Kohl's, T-Mobile and many more gather to share insights and discuss the future of leadership and performance with Jack Welch and Lars Dalgaard
Jack Welch is famous for implementing GE's brutal performance evaluation, where employees are ranked against each other and the bottom 10 percent of the list gets booted every year. Such "forced ranking" systems have long been controversial, with experts divided on if they are truly effective. New research from the...
Forced ranking is a controversial workforce management tool that uses intense yearly evaluations to identify a company's best and worst performing employees. Why It Matters Now Although most large organizations refuse to publicly discuss or even confirm whether they're using some form of forced ranking, as many as...
Jay Leno, on his late-night talk show, asked Jack Welch, the recently retired CEO of GE to recall an experience that would set the standard for his success in business. Mr. Welch told of a hockey game he played as a youth and recalled his team had...
In an article last week, the Financial Times expressed concern that former General Electric GE chief executive Jack Welch's divorce could damage the Jack Welch brand. In an article last week, the Financial Times expressed concern that former General Electric GE chief executive Jack...
Some gut instincts: Jack Welch talks about Jacques Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric Co., said last week he has a lot of respect for Ford Motor Co. CEO Jacques Nasser, whose job is widely reported to be in jeopardy. ...
After having single-handedly made General Electric the greatest company ever, Jack Welch chose to try the literary life and virually overnight produced a best seller. Welch is obviously a jack-of-all trades, and more than that, a master at getting the mosAfter having single-handedly made General Electric the greatest company ever,...
Jack Welch has been the head of General Electric since 1981, and in that time has become the management benchmark by which other companies measure themselves. Welch is slated to retire in 2000, and has left a legacy of 10 product groups that include huge Jack Welch has been the...
BOSTON -- "The dirtiest little secret in business is not lack of candor as Jack Welch would have us believe. It has everything to with the fact that people don't understand how to impact the bottom line." states financial expert, Carole Symonds. "Analysts, stockbrokers and CEOs alike focus on earnings...
In "The New (beep, beep) Rules of HRD" by Chip Bell and Oren Harari August, GE chairman Jack Welch was mistakenly identified as retired. Welch is not scheduled to retire until April 2001.
Leaving home for work the other day, I spotted an SUV with the vanity license plate "6SIGMA." Could it be that this was a GE employee who has taken Jack Welch's transformational ethos about building quality from within to heart? After reading Welch's letter to shareholders in GE'S annual you...
Leaving home for work the other day, I spotted an SUV with the vanity license plate "6SIGMA." Could it be that this was a GE employee who has taken Jack Welch's transformational ethos about building quality from within to heart? After reading Welch's letter to shareholders in GE's annual you...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Former General Electric CEO and corporate legend Jack Welch will try his hand as a classroom instructor for the first time this fall at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The course will center on the leadership beliefs and practices described in Welch's recent book, "Winning."
The Product Development and Management Association PDMA and The Institute for International Research IIR will hold the 3rd Annual Front End of Innovation conference in Boston, MA, May 23-25, 2005. Keynote speaker line up at the time of press includes Jack Welch - Former Chairman and CEO - GE,...
MERRILL LYNCH is fighting once again to keep clients from following a departing broker out the door, but in this case, one of the accounts in question happens to belong to Jack Welch. MERRILL LYNCH is fighting once again to keep clients from following...
Former General Electric Chairman and author Jack Welch will make quarterly contributions on CNBC's Squawk Box. His first appearance will ... Former General Electric Chairman and author Jack Welch will make quarterly contributions on CNBC's Squawk Box. His first appearance will be Feb....
