I came across a good point today when i ran through my book about the autobiography of Jack Welch – Straight From the Gut. I’ve completed reading this book last year but this morning, when I did the Spring Cleaning at my room, I found it beneath of my DVDs and start flipping through the book again.
If you doesn’t know who’s JACK WELCH is ; then probably you’re a student or if you’re on job, you’re no white collar worker. Jack Welch is previous CEO of General Electric. He’s like Tiger Woods of management and I believe all CEOs want to emulate him. He’s more like an American Treasure and give a leadership a new meaning as he took GE from an industrial giant and turned it into Industrial colossus.
Ok we stop here …. and probably if you want to know more about Jack Welch you can Google it later..
The good note I’ve got this morning from the book is during his tenures as CEO of GE, Mr Welch only had Four Initiatives , which were the followings:-
- Globalization
- Services
- Six-Sigma and
- E-Business
Can you believe it … ONLY FOUR INITIATIVE in 20 ++ years….. according to him, initiative live forever and they create fundamental change in a company. They build on one another and everything in the GE operating system reinforces them. On the other hand, short term tactical moves are needed to revitalize and energize a function or company. Some examples of the tactical he made were upgraded sourcing leadership and globalized suppliers, reduced foreign service employees, reduced internal travel, using the internet and many more.
The philosophy is simple according to him, the quantity of initiative in not important BUT understanding the difference between the fundamental and the quick-fix (short term tactic to move the initiative) help an organization stay focused. The important word here is stay FOCUS.
FYI, I have actually experienced this whereby too many initiatives to work-on and I believe these have made me really exhausted and OUT of FOCUS.
Out of Focus…. i’m in trouble now…
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