Executives and Management (Theory)
How Jack Welch’s Reign at G.E. Gave Us Elon Musk’s Twitter Feed
When Jack Welch died on March 1, 2020, tributes poured in for the longtime chief executive of General Electric, whom many revered as the greatest chief executive of all time. David Zaslav, the C.E.O. of Warner Bros. Discovery and a Welch disciple, remembered him as an almost godlike figure. “Jack set the path. He saw […]
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Are You Happy? Your Boss Is Asking.
Garry Ridge, who runs the chemical company WD-40, has a leadership style guided by two sources — Aristotle, and the BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work,” Mr. Ridge said first, quoting the Greek philosopher. Then he picked up a recent BlackRock memo. “Companies who forged strong bonds […]
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No More Working for Jerks!
Baird, the financial services firm, took the principle a step further by codifying it in policy. Employees are informed during their orientation of the company’s “no asshole rule” — it’s even written into training material. Leslie Dixon, the head of human resources, has fired people for violating it. “By putting it out there in print […]
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Sara Menker and Gro Intelligence Are Tackling Global Hunger
Even if you didn’t experience the famine personally you must have been deeply aware of it and affected by it. A thousand percent. First of all, you have to remember we come from massive families. My mom has 24 siblings. And you grow up very much aware of it. I grew up in a country […]
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