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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
- 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 ...
- Articles 2009-04-21
- Does Jack Welch Think Shareholder Value is a Dumb Idea?
- Last week, a Financial Times article implied that Jack Welch had denounced "shareholder value" as a strategy. This sparked a media and blogosphere firestorm, since the former GE CEO is widely credited with making shareholder value a corporate obsession. But is that really what Welch meant? Not exactly. by Steve...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- 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
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- The house that Jack built.(Jack Welch's General Electric)(Company Profile)
- 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...
- Research articles 1999-09-18
- 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."
- Research articles 2006-03-10
- A Gut feeling on the real Jack Welch. (Book Review).
- CEOs and their stories have become so cliche over the last decade, that whenever a new executive volume is published, the temptation is to pigeon-hole it as another rags-to-riches biography, or a master class in management strategies. Just by its title, Jack: Straight From the Gut by...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Jack Welch, Former Chairman of GE to Keynote Innovation Event
- 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,...
- Research articles 2004-12-14
- Jack Welch: Business jock. (Headstart).
- The author is a former Executive Vice-president of Bombardier Inc. In February 2000, Jack Welch was a guest speaker at Bombardier's annual senior management conference. In person, he looked more frail and wan than I had expected; but as he began to talk and...
- Research articles 2001-11-01
- Danger: Talent Management Can Be Divisive
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Management guru and pulitzer prize winner to be featured at SLA's conference - sla news - Brief Article
- The Special Libraries Association SLA has confirmed that Peter Drucker and Doris Kearns Goodwin will be the featured speakers at SLA's 93rd Annual Conference, June 8-13, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Known as the father of management science, Drucker is a global management guru whose advice and expertise is...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- 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...
- Articles 2007-08-22
- General Electric's Wall Street shock. (management of Kidder Peabody)
- General Electric CEO Jack Welch should spend more time and resources on the management of investment bank Kidder Peabody and Company Inc. The bank relies too heavily on mortgage-backed securities and one of its former brokers, Joseph Jett, has been accuseGeneral Electric CEO Jack Welch should spend more time and...
- Research articles 1994-05-28
- 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
- 'Mr. Welch is in a Meeting'
- For more than a decade, General Electric chairman Jack Welch has reigned as a management god. And at his right hand, in a cubicle a few steps away, sits Rosanne Badowski, his executive assistant. Badowski doesn't look imposing. But she's the master of Welch's domain, standing guard over his schedule,...
- Research articles 2000-05-29
- 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
- How I Got Here: Boss-Management Tips from the Pros
- Who knows how to manage high-powered executives? Other high-powered executives! We asked execs at Texas Instruments, General Electric, and Toshiba how they manage their bosses. Master Your Message Exec: Doug Rasor, vice president of emerging medical applications at Texas Instruments ...
- Articles 2007-03-12
- 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
- GE - Bad Management Strategy or Bad Luck?
- Value Expectations submits: It is very important to understand a company’s management strategy and management’s ability to create wealth for its shareholders. By using The Applied Finance Group’s (AFG’s) Management Quality score you have the ability to grade management’s ability to make wealth creating decisions and eliminate wealth destroying...
- External links 2009-07-20
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