We’re less than a month away from the release of Jack and Suzy Welch‘s newest work, The Real Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career (Harper Business, 2015). It is a certain best-seller, and pre-orders for the book are rocking the online outlets. Considering their… Read More Another Duo Welch Book Hits the Charts on April 15 – But Ethics?
I know that we are still working on the August 1 First Friday Book Synopsis with two excellent books and our bonus program, but I am already looking forward to my September presentation. It has excellent reviews and plenty of strong publicity, including one by our blogging partner, Bob Morris. You can read his review… Read More Talent Masters is the Choice for the September FFBS
“Ah, but we can’t,” goes the prayer. “We can’t because we have responsibility, a responsibility to our employees, to our community. What will happen to them?” I got two words for that: Who cares? {The fictional Lawrence Garfield (Larry the Liquidator), Other People’s Money – see the clip here} ———— A few nights ago, I… Read More What Hath Jack Welch Wrought? Maybe Differentiation Is Not All That Good After All – (Should there never be any jobs for the “mediocre?” – Then what?)
Here’s the title of the article: G.E. Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff by Steve Lohr (New York Times). The title really does say it all. And the fact that Jeffrey Immelt is understanding this, and acting on it, is significant. Here’s the issue: should our best and our brightest make stuff, of should… Read More Jeffrey Immelt De-emphasizes “Traders,” Rediscovers “Builders”
Many years ago, I had a teacher – a very, very smart teacher – who said that if you read something in one place, pay a little attention. But if you read it over and over again from a number of sources, pay a whole lot of attention! Here’s something you can read in countless… Read More It Really Does All Start Here — The Right People Make All The Difference
Cheryl offers: October’s HBR article “Why Succession Shouldn’t Be a Horse Race” describes how Xerox’s former CEO Anne Mulcahy successfully identified, developed and eventually passed the CEO baton to Ursula Burns, the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company while also marking the first ever woman-to-woman succession. What was most interesting was… Read More Passing the Baton – One Woman at a Time
Two things. It really helps you win if you’re on a winning streak. It really helps you win if you have the right stars to fill the right slots. Both of these thoughts are stated pretty clearly, and strongly, in the Jack Welch book, Winning. Here’s Jack Welch about winning: There have been literally thousands… Read More Winning, with the Right Stars, Leads To More…Winning!
Recently, Sue Moore of UBS Financial Services (and a regular at the First Friday Book Synopsis), sent me a link to this excellent article (click on title to read article): THE 25 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN BANKING: Taking Charge in Turbulent Times. The article includes a paragraph referencing Womenomics, which I recently presented at the… Read More Women in Banking, and Other Careers – (Womenomics seems right on the mark)
Cheryl’s view: It seems Jack Welch should play more golf and resist the temptation of making speeches. On July 21 the Wall Street Journal reported he delivered what I’m sure he thought was “straight talk” like he thinks he did in his book, Straight from the Gut. He told a convention of HR executives women… Read More Past time to retire, Jack Welch
When you start looking for something, it just seems to show up everywhere. And lately, I keep thinking about passion. I was watching just a snippet of one of my favorite movies, Field of Dreams, and saw the scene where this exchange occurred. Ray had dragged an unwilling Terence Mann to a baseball game, where… Read More Passion – Energy and Purpose, in Business and in All of LIfe
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