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- Rank-and-Fire Management Isn't So Hot After All
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- What Is Forced Ranking?
- 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...
- Articles 2007-03-20
- SuccessFactors and Jack Welch Attract a Who's Who of Business Leaders, CEOs and HR Executives for June SuccessConnect 2007
- 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
- Research articles 2007-05-16
- Can Loyalty Prevent a Layoff?
- If you're a demonstrably loyal employee, would you be spared during a layoff? That's the premise tackled by Jack Welch in a recent column on his The Welch Way blog. Welch writes, "For starters, we can certainly tell you when loyalty feels like the most important...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Employers: When This Buyer's Market Ends, What Will You Do?
- Sure, the recessions stinks. But for employers, the silver lining has been that it's created a deeper talent pool. More unemployment = more top-notch people looking to land at your company -- often, at a significant discount. But what will happen when recovery hits? ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Suzy Welch on Making Career (and Life) Decisions
- The author and wife of Jack Welch discusses her personal strategy for making important decisions, the true value of business school, and why she feels her work stands on its own, famous husband or not. What exactly is 10-10-10? It’s a way...
- Articles 2009-04-27
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- The Irrational Side of Change Management
- Most change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights about how employees interpret their environment and choose to act. In 1996, John Kotter published Leading Change. Considered by many to be the seminal work...
- Articles 2009-05-15
- Models for People Management: Best Buy, Google, GE, Semco
- A look at four models of people management — all radically different, all successful. General Electric: The Ruthless Meritocracy ...
- Articles 2008-09-26
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