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General Electric: the Jack Welch model, rise and fall

For this new article in the “Business stories” series, and after seeing how Boeing's setbacks are in no way a problem of expertise but rather of corporate culture (Boeing: a culture and a slogan can kill a business) and how the Titanic disaster could have been avoided with different management and, above all, different compensation models (Titanic: autopsy of a managerial disaster), today we are going to talk about an iconic business and leader, namely General Electric and Jack Welch. GE is a rather special business for me, as is its iconic...

The problem is not markets but organizations’ internal complexity

Business often say tough markets account for the major cause of their problems while their actual problem is their own internal complexity. While this...

Your strategy needs to be adaptive and opportunistic

In a fast changing world, businesses are getting tangled up in their strategy. A strategic plans follows another that had even not been achieved...

Sustainable is good. Renewable is great.

In short : sustainability is a trendy idea. It suggests both the idea of continuity in performance and respect for resources. But doesn't it...

The problem with knowledge economy : it does not exist !

Summary : Enterprise 2.0 or social business initiatives aim at crafting organizations that fit what we call the knowledge economy. And that's quite hard...for...

In KPI, K stands for Key

Summary : Any project must have KPIs. At first sight, defining indicators is an easy things but observation shows that it's the contrary, most...