Jack Welch September–October 1989 > September–October 1989 Speed‚ Simplicity‚ Self-Confidence: An Interview with Jack Welch An Interview with Jack Welch by Noel Tichy and Ram Charan John F. Welch‚ Jr.‚ chairman and CEO of General Electric‚ leads one of the world’s largest corporations. It is a very different corporation from the one he inherited in 1981. GE is now built around 14 distinct businesses—including aircraft engines‚ medical systems‚ engineering plastics‚ major appliances
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but it won’t prompt me to purchase‚ it will just lead me to research more on the product’s user reviews which I normally get from friends or on online product review forums. This goes the same way for most of the people I know. In an article in HBR titled “Marketing is Dead”‚ the writer noted that traditional marketing is already dead and he qualified this with research data. “Buyers are no longer paying much attention. Several studies have confirmed that in the "buyer’s decision journey‚" traditional
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WS5 HBR Paper MGT 532 William (Bill) Sanders Indiana Wesleyan University NOTATION: The instructions for this week’s assignments cited this article as being written by Birkinshaw‚ J.‚ & Crainer‚ S. No such article exists in any database in the OCLS written by either of these individuals. Here is my submission based on the only article by that title I was able to locate from the Harvard Business Review. Article Summary: In the article “It’s not “unprofessional” to gossip at work”
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OLR 1 Kotter‚ J.‚ “What Leaders Really Do‚” HBR‚ 1900 Many people wonder the differences in management and leadership. Kotter (1990) clearly states the differences between management and leadership. He mentions that management is about dealing with complexity‚ while leadership is about dealing with change. Companies manage complexity in three ways. First‚ managers plan and budget to achieve their rather short-term goals. These goals are short-term because in the rapidly changing business
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lose a proton. There are very few strong acids. A strong acid is one that completely ionizes in water. In contrast a weak acid only partially dissociates. Examples of strong acids are hydrochloric acid (HCl)‚ hydroiodic acid (HI)‚ hydrobromic acid (HBr)‚ perchloric acid (HClO4)‚ nitric acid (HNO3) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4). In water each of these essentially ionizes 100%. The stronger an acid is‚ the more easily it loses a proton‚ H+. Two key factors that contribute to the ease of deprotonation
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CHE 145 B5z1 Lab Exam I Name_____________________ Direction: Answer the questions and show your work in the space provided. 1. Convert the following numbers to standard exponential form: a) 0.00352 _____3.52x10-3__ __ b) 0.01847 _____1.847x10-2____ c) 7‚604 ________7.604x103__ _ d) 536.2 x 105 ____5.362x107 _______ 2. How many significant figures are there in the following: a) 0.10849 ________5_________ b) 0.864 _______3_______
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Synthesis of 1‚4-benzenedicarboxylic acid Amoco Process In the Amoco process‚ terephthalic acid is produced by oxidation of p-xylene by oxygen in air: Diagram 3.1 The process uses cobalt-manganese-bromide catalyst. The bromide source can be NaBr‚ HBr or tetrabromoethane where bromine functions as a regenerative source of free radicals. In this process‚ acetic acid is the solvent and oxygen from compressed air is the oxidant. The combination of bromine and acetic acid is found to be highly corrosive
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References: Green‚ S. (2009). Is the Rookie Ready? : HBR Case Study. Harvard Business Review.
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The Cure for Horrible Bosses In the recent film comedy Horrible Bosses‚ three truly dreadful managers make their employees’ lives miserable. The first is a cruel executive who dangles a promotion in front of a subordinate as bait‚ only to snatch it away once his stupid demands have been met. The second is a mean cokehead who inherits the family business from his kindly deceased father. The third is an orthodontist who sexually harasses her assistant‚ threatening to tell his fiancée that it’s his
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Symbol H+ Li+ Na+ K+ Rb+ Cs+ Be2+ Mg2+ Ca2+ Sr2+ Ba2+ Ra2+ Zn2+ Symbol Cu+ Cu2+ Fe2+ Fe3+ Sn2+ Sn4+ Cr2+ Cr3+ Mn2+ Mn3+ Symbols and Charges for Monoatomic Ions Name Symbol Name hydrogen ion H¯ hydride lithium ion F¯ fluoride Note that the sodium ion Cl¯ chloride letters in an ion’s potassium ion Br¯ bromide name before the rubidium ion I¯ iodide -ide ending is 2¯ cesium ion O oxide the stem. For 2¯ beryllium ion S sulfide example‚ the stem
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