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...
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...
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...
Jack Welch values process over people. Ray Dalton values people over process. This was the lesson that Dalton learned earlier in his career when he had the opportunity to work for Welch on two separate occasions after GE bought businesses he had started. While many would salivate over working...
Byline: Mat Zucker I didn't know it at the time, but all the radio spots I did back in the '90s really set me up nicely for the digital-content era, especially for my favorite emerging-media vehicle: podcasting. News and entertainment...
Drummer with The Nice A battering fusillade at the climax of "America", the West Side Story song adapted by The Nice, was a hallmark of the drumming style of Brian Davison. A passionate and gifted player, he saw his role in any group as a fellow musician...
Too often, we act contrary to what we know. For instance, managers are quick to stipulate the central role of people, but then they go headlong into major change initiatives with little more than lip service for the human dimension. Is it a recent discovery that people are the singular...
When I talked to Jack Welch, the iconic ex-boss of GE, shortly after the Enron crisis some years ago, he said that all the regulators and rules in the world couldn't make up for people who had "the nose" to sniff out wrongdoing in companies. What Welch meant was that...
*What he's reading now: Great People Decisions: Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz. We always need to make the right people decisions. I can use all the help I can get. *Books that helped him...
THE ANATOMY OF DECISION MAKING Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls By Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis (Penguin Group, 392 pp. $26.95) Judgment calls are often viewed as singular moments resulting from a leader's intuition. They're seen as snapshots in time, developed instantly. But good...
[Book] Giant Steps in Management: Innovations That Change the Way You Work Julian Birkinshaw, Michael MoI, Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Ă‚Â£22.99 ** I wanted to dislike this book. It claims it will keep you on the "right side of innovation". Eeeww. But inside, it's not so alarming...
Haddonfield won seven straight bouts from 112 pounds to 145 for a 34-3 lead, then held on as Delran rallied with six straight wins as the Bulldogs escaped with a 34-30 win and third place in the 16-team Jack Welch Duals wrestling tournament at Moorestown yesterday. St. Benedict's , which...
A South Island woman who died of a blood clot while giving birthin the United States last week is being flown home to be buried. Deidre Dee Currie-Welch, 38, died on January 8 in Detroit whilein labour with son Jack. The baby was delivered by emergency caesarean a...
A South Island woman who died of a blood clot while giving birthin the United States last week is being flown home to be buried. Deidre Dee Currie-Welch, 38, died on January 8 in Detroit whilein labour with son Jack. The baby was delivered by emergency Caesarean a...
Private Equity Firm Founded by Former GE and Wall Street Executives Will Focus on Industrial Middle Market B2B Businesses NEW YORK -- GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm launched by top executives from GE and Wall Street, announced today that it has closed its first fund with...
NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: In the meantime, as Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton ride the momentum today, is the lesson today not to discount age and experience? Jack Welch is the former GE chairman, CEO, author of, among so many bestsellers, "Winning." ...
Contary to the old Rolling Stones lyric, time is not on your side. It's no secret that a CEO's tenure has been dropping precipitously over the last 10 years. In the 1990s, a chief could expect to hold onto his job for at least 10 years. Today, he or she...
Contary to the old Rolling Stones lyric, time is not on your side. It's no secret that a CEO's tenure has been dropping precipitously over the last 10 years. In the 1990s, a chief could expect to hold onto his job for at least 10 years. Today, he or she...
Crescent Hill is, by all accounts, a picturesque neighborhood. With its Victorian houses, locally owned shops and restaurants, and old Main Street feel, it's like a small town in the middle of a large city. Longtime Louisville mayor Jerry Abramson is a resident. And part of the charm, for locals...
