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...The absurdity of our leadership beliefs is nowhere better manifested than in Jim Collins’ legendary Good to Great, a huge evergreen bestseller....
...In 1954, Joseph Nye Welch, chief counsel for the US army, responded to the red-baiting of Senator Joe McCarthy by asking “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”...
...your recklessness,” said Welch....
...Boeing’s board picked that other candidate, Jim McNerney, for its top job in 2005 and Mr Calhoun left GE the following year to run VNU, the media and data group later renamed Nielsen by its private equity...
...Jack Welch’s Straight from the Gut and Winning are hardly much better....
...Mr Stonecipher emphasised the importance of improving the company’s financial profile, a trend that continued when Boeing hired Jim McNerney, an acolyte of Jack Welch, the cost-cutting chief executive of...
...Mr Farquhar read voraciously in the early days to hone his leadership skills, listing books by management gurus Peter Drucker and Jim Collins, IBM’s Lou Gerstner and General Electric’s Jack Welch among his...
...“I’d be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify,” said Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, sparking laughter in the committee room....
...The Man Who Solved the Market, by Gregory Zuckerman Gregory Zuckerman, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, lifts the lid on one of the most fascinating characters in financial markets, Jim Simons,...
...In Mr Flannery’s defence, the analyst Jim Corridore of CFRA Research argued that “these problems were not created under his tenure”....
...Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio asked Mr Mueller why he did not bring charges against Joseph Mifsud, a UK-based Maltese academic with an interest in Russian affairs....
...Early signs of concern about GE’s outlook emerged even while Mr Welch was still in charge....
...Adding salt to the wound, Boeing had been led for much of the intervening period by Jim McNerney, a former GE executive who had once been Mr Immelt’s chief rival....
...Letter in response to this article: Leasehold reform could be extended to blocks of flats / From Peter Welch, Marlow, Bucks, UK...
...Three candidates — Mr Immelt, Jim McNerney and Bob Nardelli — duked it out as heads of, respectively, GE’s medical systems, aircraft engines and power systems divisions....
...Warsh, Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics, Hoover Institute, Former Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Mark Weinberger, Global Chairman and CEO, EY Jack Welch...
...“I think he should be fired,” said Jim Cramer, the loud-mouthed CNBC host, referring to the chief executive. “I mean, what does it take to get fired these days?”...
...Now, however, it has been overtaken by Boeing which — in delicious, Shakespearean irony — was run for many years by Jim McNerney, once known as "Little Jack" at GE for his closeness to old CEO Jack Welch...
...BlackRock Bob Iger- chairman and chief executive, The Walt Disney Company Rich Lesser- president and chief executive, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon- president and chief executive, Wal-Mart Stores Jim...
...high-profile business leaders on the 16-person forum include Mary Barra, chief executive of General Motors; Ginni Rometty, chief executive of IBM; and the former chief executive of General Electric, Jack Welch...
...PwC used to poll chief executives about their most respected business leader and Jack Welch continued to be ranked in the top three for some years after he had stepped down as boss of General Electric....
...Jim Heppelmann, chief executive of PTC, a software company that works with GE and other manufacturers, says that sort of boost to productivity represents a critical competitive advantage....
...Welch’s performance gives the masseur great dignity under the policeman’s volley of verbal assaults....
...Additional reporting by Jim Pickard Letter in response to this article: Steel price is unlikely to have seen off Caparo / From Peter Welch...
...Welch describes a scenario in which an EMBA student would stay up all night to write a paper, kids crying, spouse wanting attention....
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