tailieunhanh - The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership phần 9

Ông kêu gọi việc chuyển giao của trí tuệ của công ty thông qua nhiều phân đoạn kinh doanh của GE trên toàn thế giới "ngang học tập." Theo quan điểm boundaryless Welch, không có tường hoặc ranh giới giữa một nhân viên và ý tưởng mới. | THE JACK WELCH LEXICON OF LEADERSHIP 157 R Rationalization The term used to describe how Welch streamlined many GE businesses. Usually this meant reducing the size of the payrolls. Rattlers These are what GE called the more recognizable problems at a Work-Out session such as eliminating a form that required multiple signatures for some reason that no one could remember. Unlike pythons rattlers were far easier to figure out. Reality What every manager must face if they are going to manage effectively. Welch said that the art of management came down to facing reality and acting accordingly in the face of that reality. Time and again Welch showed his ability to size up a situation and then devise a solution-oriented strategy or initiative to deal with things as they really were see also The Art of Managing . Reality-Based Leadership Throughout his 20 years at the helm Welch demonstrated a rare ability for seeing things as they really were and a willingness to make the difficult decisions demanded by the situation. So many of Welch s signature strategies were sparked by his recognition of a particular reality problem or weakness. Work-Out for example was ignited by Welch s discovery of a severe communication gap between manager and employee managers were not listening to employees . In transforming GE Welch did not have the luxury of taking into account the feelings of GE insiders or taking the pulse of the press. After coming to grips with a certain reality Welch would devise a strategy or initiative to Copyright 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies. Click here for terms of use. 158 THE JACK WELCH LEXICON OF LEADERSHIP deal with it and stand by stoically as criticism poured in. That happened for example when Welch decided to sell off GE s Consumer Business Division in the late 1980s it was actually a swap for a unit of a French company . One newspaper accused the GE CEO of selling off an American birthright not seeing the bigger picture of a number four or number five .