Category: Personal Development

10 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Great leaders never stop learning. As a leader, if you want your people to keep growing, you must never stop learning.

Because your people are not going to grow if you are not learning. Your organization is not going to grow if your people are not learning. And your customers are not going to be happy if your people are not growing.

To fix that, according to Jack Welch, ‘At the heart of this culture is an understanding that an organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage.’

‘Find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light.’

‘What we are looking for … are … leaders who can energize, excite, and control rather than enervate, depress, and control.’

‘The only way to change people’s minds is with consistency.’

‘The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea.’

‘Every layer is a bad layer. The world is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It slows you down.’

‘Speed is the product of an open organization.’

‘You’ve got to balance freedom with some control, but you’ve got to have more freedom than you’ve ever dreamed of.’

‘Those who actually did the work … had some striking ideas on how things could be done better.’

‘Quality is the next act of productivity.’

Source:

Robert Slater (1999). Jack Welch and the GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO

How To Lead Organizational Change Successfully

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Change is growth. No change, no growth. If you are not willing to change, you are not going to grow.

Change is doing things differently.

When it comes to changing your organization, according to Robert W. Jacobs, ‘Significant transformations call for the development of new structures, systems, practices, skills, and processes to support the successful institutionalization of these new ways of doing business.’

‘During real time strategic change events, leaders must use discretion in determining how much interpretation of the common database should be carried out by the large group.’

‘Leaders need to pay attention to the throttle of organizational change; keep closer than ever to stakeholders, especially internal ones; stay flexible; and continually review plans and progress.’

‘Cogent explanations of a leader’s own needs shape the purpose of the overall process and sometimes influence certain aspect of individual events.’

‘The leader of the change effort must sign up the top leadership they can provide for it.’

‘Organizational leaders must believe in what they are presenting.’

‘A system-wide paradigm shift needs to occur at some point in the process in order for a real time strategic change effort to succeed.’

‘Changes are made in how business gets done in the organization because everyone starts doing business differently.’

‘Change happens system-wide because everyone decides it is time.’

‘The only way to bring about significant change across the entire organization is for everybody- including you- to make it happen, to start doing things differently.’

Source:

Robert W. Jacobs (1994). Real Time Strategic Change: How to Involve an Entire Organization in Fast and Far-Reaching Change