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Corporate Icon Jack Welch To Teach at MIT Sloan School of Management Using Lessons from His Book ''Winning''; Former GE CEO to Emphasize Leadership
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."
Tags: General Electric Co., Jack Welch, leadership, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research articles 2006-03-10
Jack Welch on leadership.(COMMON-SENSE BUSINESS)
There's no end to the number of great business lessons you can learn from reading the books by or about Jack Welch. Twelve are listed on Amazon.com. The newest, "Jack Welch and the 4E's of Leadership. How to Put GE's Leadership Formula to Wor...
Tags: General Electric Co., Jack Welch, leadership, Part 1, Part 2
Research articles 2005-09-12
New world leader: 3M Co.'s James McNerney, CEO Of The Year, is committed to operating excellence and organic growth through innovation, international strength, leadership development and Six Sigma.(Leadership)(Cover Story)
There is one notable thing that W. James McNerney Jr. is not. He is no longer one of two former General Electric Co. executives who did not get Jack Welch's job when the legendary leader chose his successor in November 2000. There is one...
Tags: 3M Co., Jack Welch, leader, leadership, leadership development, Six Sigma
Research articles 2004-01-01
How Confident Are You? Take the Test
Here's a quick guide to seeing where you land on the confidence spectrum, plus advice for improving your game. Overconfident ...
Tags: Employee, Leader, Leadership, Corporate Governance, Games, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Confidence, Leading, Downturn, Recession, Managing in a Recession, Overconfidence, Michael Dell, Jack Welch, Andrew Tilin
Articles 2009-04-21

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Doing it the Jack Welch way
`Jack Welch on Leadership' By: Robert Slater Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies Pages: 154 Price: RM43.80 IF YOU have not read the book Jack Welch and the GE Way, you may want to catch the abridged version of that...
Tags: General Electric Co., Welch's
Research articles 2004-12-16
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
Tags: Human Resources, Jack Welch, SuccessFactors Inc.
Research articles 2007-05-16
Welch's Legacy of Leadership - Jack Welch - Brief Article
CAN A SCUTTLED SWAN SONG such as Jack Welch's failed bid for Honeywell hobble the legacy of his 41-year career? "Welch's place in business history was secure long before Honeywell," opines Jeffrey Krames, author of The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership and editor of four books on the GE...
Tags: Honeywell International Inc., Welch's
Research articles 2001-10-01
The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership: Over 250 Terms, Concepts, Strategies and Initiatives of the Legendary Leader
Reviews The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership: Over 250 Terms, Concepts, Strategies and Initiatives of the Legendary Leader. Jeffrey A. Krames. 2001. New York: McGraw-Hill. 224 pages. Perhaps there is no better business "dictionary" than The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership by Jeffrey A. Krames. Krames has crafted another superb,...
Tags: General Electric Co., Welch's
Research articles 2002-01-01
Cycles of Learning: Observations of Jack Welch
The article talks about the three cycles of learning that Jack Welch has gone through and used them for the improvement of business. In the first cycle he focused on the elimination of variety in its portfolio of businesses by reducing the nonperforming business units. During a subsequent learning cycle...
Tags: American Society For Quality, Leadership, Management
White papers 2001-11-01
There's Just One Word For Jack Welch
Praise for Jack Welch was widespread and consumed large quantities of newsprint in the weeks leading up to Sept. 7, his last day as chairman and CEO of General Electric. If someone had to use just one word to sum up his contribution to GE in the 20-plus years he...
Tags: General Electric Co., Knowledge@Wharton, Leadership, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software
White papers 2001-09-13
10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)
Don't believe the hype. These "classic" books attract all the attention, but for real business wisdom, read our preferred suggestions instead. Management Consulting...
Tags: Peripherals, management, career, resources, BNET Feature, Hardware, Mice, Geoffrey James, Finance, Human Resources, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Organizational Structure, Blurb, Books, Publisher
Articles 2007-08-22
'Winning' Co-Author Suzy Welch to Speak at Babson College.
Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., Sept. 1 AScribe Newswire -- Suzy Welch, author, commentator, and business journalist will speak at Babson College, Mon., Sep. 12, at 5:30 p.m. The event is hosted by the Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College. ...
Tags: co-author, Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business Review, Leadership, Massachusetts, women
Research articles 2005-09-01
Jeff Immelt's GE: A Study in Corporate Leadership
David Magee submits: On Wall Street, the adage that savvy investors should do the opposite of more obvious appearances, taking advantage of reality’s lag time, has perhaps never been truer than now. That’s why many investors have long practiced the strategy of buy on analysts’ sell recommendations, sell on analyst’s...
Tags: Materials/Industrials, David Magee, General Electric Co.
External links 2009-05-06
Tichy and Bennis' "Judgment" Judged
The book Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis was published in November 2007 and garnered a fair amount of attention, given that Tichy and Bennis are well-known management thinkers. Business Week ran an excerpt from the book, they wrote a...
Tags: Management, Leadership, Internet, Blogging, Michael Fitzgerald, 800CEOread.com, Perishable Pundit, Judgment
Blog posts 2008-02-04
Rank-and-Fire Management Isn't So Hot After All
Rank-and-Fire Management Isn't So Hot After AllDuh!!It is fortunate that the subject of the article links "rank-and-fire" with "management" because there is very little logic to link "rank-and-fire" to anything but insensitive management. It would have been much more interesting to have looked into whether "leadership" has any correlation with...
Tags: forced ranking, Rank-and-Fire Management
Discussion threads 2007-04-05
Executive Summary: Deploying Six Sigma to Bolster Business Processes and the Bottom Line
Six Sigma is the fastest growing business management system, credited with saving billions of dollars for companies during the past 10 years. Developed by Motorola in the mid-1980s, Six Sigma became well known after General Electric's Jack Welch made it a central focus of GE's business strategy in 1995. The...
Tags: Business Process, Better Management.com, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Follow the leader: under CEO Jack Welch, leadership development is priority no. 1 at GE.(25th Annual CEO Survey)(includes related article on management values at General Electric)
00-00-0000 THE PROFESSOR STEPS TO THE front of his class. Working from a well- developed lesson plan, he speaks of the ethic, the responsibility, and the morality of being a leader. For some three and a half hours he teaches everything from style to 00-00-0000...
Tags: General Electric Co., leader, leadership, leadership development, survey
Research articles 1996-11-18
LEADERSHIP CAN'T BE BOUGHT
Ttroubled companies have turned to super heroes to bail them out. J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. has taken retired General Electric CEO Jack Welch on as an advisor, and the ailing Ford Motor Co. turns for advice to Carl Reichardt, the retired CEO of the old Wells Fargo &...
Tags: bank, Banking, CEO, Ford Motor Co., leadership
Research articles 2001-12-03
The right man for the job.
The concept of 'the right man for the job' has a long history in business leadership, but a patchy record of application. Jack Welch, appointed chairman and chief executive of giant US company General Electric GE in 1980, dominated it for 20 years, The concept of...
Tags: General Electric Co., Jack Welch, job
Research articles 2005-03-11
Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action
Southwest Airlines keeps soaring. Its stock price rose a compounded 21,000% between 1972 and 1992 and leapt 300% between 1995 and 2000. Why does Southwest succeed while so many other airlines fail? Because it sticks...
Tags: Southwest Airlines Co., Principle, Partners, Strategy, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Orit Gadiesh, James L. Gilbert
Articles 2008-08-08
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