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Useful Commute: Awaken Your Inner Jack Welch: 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...; Tags: Leadership, Useful Commute, Jack Welch, leader; Discussion threads 2008-02-10
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...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Jennifer Alsever, General Electric Co., worker, workforce management, C, firing, teamwork, talent, workplace, Human Resources, compensation, shareholder, performance, training, environment, strategy, tool, job, Internet; Articles 2007-03-20
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...; Tags: Performance management, Andrew Hines, forced ranking; Blog posts 2007-03-28

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BRIAN DAVISON: 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...; Articles 2008-04-22
Engaging the disengaged: in times of change, five basic forces help retain and engage employees: 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...; Articles 2008-04-01

Why the FSA should put down its spreadsheets and have a good old: 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...; Articles 2008-03-30
What I read: *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...; Articles 2008-03-03
ANATOMY OF DECISION MAKING, THE: 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...; Articles 2008-02-01
Giant Steps in Management: Innovations That Change the Way You Work: [Book] Giant Steps in Management: Innovations That Change the Way You Work Julian Birkinshaw, Michael MoI, Financial Times/ Prentice Hall £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...; Articles 2008-01-31
Mum's death devastates family: 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...; Articles 2008-01-16
Kiwi mum dies of clot as baby born: 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...; Articles 2008-01-16
GenNx360 Capital Partners Closes First Fund with More Than $500 Million in Commitments: 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...; Articles 2008-01-11
General Electric - Former Chairman &amp; CEO Interview: 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." ...; Articles 2008-01-09
Rail Roulette: 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...; Articles 2008-01-01
Time is the enemy: 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...; Articles 2008-01-01
Time Is the Enemy: 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...; Articles 2008-01-01
Time is the enemy.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(chief executive officer's tenure drops): 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,...; Articles 2008-01-01
Moorestown student charged: Criminal charges were filed yesterday against a Moorestown High School senior who was allegedly drunk when he lost control of his car and crashed into a tree, killing another senior from the school, authorities said. Daniel Friedmann, 18, was charged with death by auto after the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office...; Articles 2007-12-19
GE chief sees growth opportunities in 2008: PITTSBURGH -- Many executives would find it hard to be cheery as they enter a new year marked by a wobbly economy, uncertain political trends and new technologies that pose profound challenges to old business models. Yet General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt seems buoyant. He says...; Articles 2007-12-14
Top leaders share certain crafty talents: Judgment By Noel M. Tichy, Warren G. Bennis Portfolio, 392 pages, $26.95 --- Every day is judgment day for the best leaders. That's the major take-away from Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls. Respected writers Noel Tichy and Warren...; Articles 2007-12-10