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Raghu Krishnamoorthy: The Most Valuable Currency

Raghu Krishnamoorthy GE
November 21, 2014
What’s the most critical currency in today’s global economy? Jobs.
 
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Janet Crawford: Innovation’s Neural Paradox

Janet Crawford Cascadance
September 30, 2014
Great innovations often seem stunningly simple and obvious…after the fact. Innovation happens, according to Matt Ridley, “when ideas have sex.” But why don’t more interesting ideas find ways to attract each other and mate? Why does innovation play hard to get?
 
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Jennifer McNelly: Women in Manufacturing — An Untapped Resource

Jennifer Mcnelly The Manufacturing Institute
September 18, 2014
Janae Owens, an Environment, Health and Safety Manager at GE, is an example of an exceptional leader. Exceptional, in part, because she overcame the odds of being a woman in manufacturing and becoming the go-to EHS Specialist with GE On-site Machining and Repairs. Because of her great work, Janae was honored as a STEP Award Honoree in 2014.
 
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The New Role Of Leaders

Greg Satell
May 22, 2014
When Alfred Sloan created the modern corporation at General Motors, he based it on the military.  The company was split into divisions, each with its own leadership. Information flowed up, orders went down and your rank determined your responsibility.
The model was designed to implement strategy from the top and move men and materiel efficiently.  It assumed that leaders had better understanding than those on the lower rungs.  Managers made plans and foot soldiers carried them out.
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State of Business: Simplify or Ossify

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
March 26, 2014
A few months ago, I visited one of our rail customers to discuss our locomotives. At their request, I spoke to a group of leaders and managers in the transportation industry. I have addressed thousands of customers in my career but something has changed.
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Where are the Women in Leadership?

Janet Crawford Cascadance
February 19, 2014
When it comes to discussion about the absence of women in leadership, there’s something in the air. In the past year, articles, books, and studies have flooded the press, so much so that a new term has emerged: Gender fatigue.

As a female scientist in my early fifties, I’ve lived with this question my entire adult life.  In the early 1980s, I was on the forefront of a movement of women into science and leadership and I naively assumed that equity of representation and pay would soon follow. The numbers, however, tell a very different story.
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