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Posted by ibuildempires on August 20, 2008 Jack Welch, Author / Former Chairman & CEO, GE; Suzy Welch, Author / Former Editor, Harvard Business Review, Book: “Winning” [Publisher: Harper Business] /// Cardinal Avery Dulles, Fo… This entry was posted on August 20, 2008 at 2:53 pm and is filed under Business, Video, Vision.

I spend a lot of time on this blog giving you advice that I hope will help you in your career. But sometimes, you just have to step aside and let other people do your talking for you. I think these are some pretty smart folks, so lend an ear: "An overburdened, stretched executive is the best executive,

Few managers today can have escaped exposure to the management industry.

It's time for second-quarter newspaper earnings reports, with Gannett leading off Wednesday, with the long tale of woe to follow. Given the many newspaper staff cutbacks, which I thought might include the investor relations people, I've put together a few boilerplate remarks that I hope are helpful.

<span lang=EN> <p align=center><strong><font size=5>Business Quotes for Today</font></strong><br></p><font size=4> <p><br>Traditional thinking is all about "what is." Future thinking will also need to be about "what can

Filed under: General Electric (GE) General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is scheduled to report second quarter earnings this Friday. Ten analysts that Zacks surveys expect GE to make 53 cents a share, the same as it did in 2007. Given that 0% growth rate, GE's forward Price/Earnings ratio of 12.1 seems a bit on the high side.

"The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it." More than once people who worked at the company while Jack Welch was CEO at General Electric (NYSE: GE) said they were surprised that he was aware of what they were doing.

Alright, I’ve always kinda appreciated the fact that he’s an “honest” conservative, and I’ve always enjoyed watching his commentary on MSNBC. He has kind of a quirky agenda, which means that even though I oppose him ideologically, almost all liberals find a few areas of overlap with the man (Iraq?

Filed under: News, Celebrities, Reality-FreeHave you been wondering where Joe Scarborough has been on Morning Joe the past few weeks? The titular star of the show has been off the air, missing all the doings with Senator Hillary Clinton suspending her campaign for president and Senator Obama Barack becoming the presumptive Democratic candidate.

"Neutron" Jack Welch has joined the ranks of the very people he destroyed: NBC. (Welch was derisively dubbed "Neutron Jack" after the bomb that takes out humans but leaves buildings unscathed.) The former GE chairman hogged "Morning Joe's" airwaves as cohost, overshadowing an admittedly exhausted Mika Brzezinski.