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If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards Sale Price: $6.70  |
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J. K. Rowling’s novels about Harry Potter and the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have captured the imaginations of people everywhere. In If Harry Potter Ran General Electric, bestselling business author Tom Morris (If Aristotle Ran General Motors) uncovers the values and timeless truths that underlie Rowling’s hugely popular books and illuminates the lessons they offer to all of us in our careers and daily lives... |
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GE SmartWater MWF Refrigerator Water Filter, 2-Pack Sale Price: $59.99 |
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GE’s NSF-certified MWF replacement refrigerator water filter—part of the company’s SmartWater filtration series—is the improved version of the GWF model, providing you and your loved ones cleaner, healthier, and better-tasting drinking water at home... |
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General Electric Corded Phone with Caller ID and Speakerphone (Black), 29585FE1 Sale Price: $28.99 |
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General Electric Corded Phone with Caller ID and Speakerphone (Black), 29585FE1 |
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At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit Sale Price: $4.25 |
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No contemporary business leader has been so widely acclaimed as Jack Welch of General Electric. Welch's transformation of GE into one of America's most profitable and valuable companies has been chronicled already in several other books, most recently Jack Welch and the GE Way by Robert Slater... |
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GE Microwave Grease Filter WB06X10288 Sale Price: $6.40 |
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GE Microwave Grease Filter Part# WB06X10288 Model# JVM1871SH001, JVM2070SH001 , JVM2070SK02 |
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2 of WB31M20 and 2 of WB31M19 GE Range Cooktop Porcelain Drip Pan Bowls Sale Price: $5.95 |
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Up for Sale is a Set of Black Porcelain Drip Bowls. These a Genuine O.E.M. General Electric parts, used on GE, Hotpoint & RCA Ranges. With the purchase of this sale you will receive. 2 of WB31M20 6" Small Bowl... |
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GE GSWF Refrigerator Water Filter, 1-Pack Sale Price: $26.75 |
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GE’s NSF-certified GSWF slim replacement refrigerator water filter—part of the company’s SmartWater filtration series—provides you and your loved ones cleaner, healthier, and better-tasting drinking water at home... |
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General Electric's Six Sigma Revolution: How General Electric and Others Turned Process Into Profits Sale Price: $3.87 |
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Applying this revolutionary management strategy to drive positive change in an organizationCurrently exploding onto the American business scene, the Six Sigma methodology fuels improved effectiveness and efficiency in an organization; according to General Electric's Jack Welch, it's the "most important initiative [they] have ever undertaken... |
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If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards |
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However important the magic of wands, brooms, cauldrons, potions, and spells might be to the vivid story telling of [the Harry Potter] books, it is merely incidental to their philosophy of life…. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard someone in a business context say something like “I wish I could just magically solve all these problems” or “I’ll try my best to deal with this, but remember, I’m no magician... |
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GE WR51X10101 Defrost Heater and Bracket Assembly for Refrigerator Sale Price: $16.90 |
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GE Defrost Heater Assembly WR51X10101 |
Most of the best thinking and writing on business focuses either on large corporations or start-up entrepreneurship exclusively. The importance of Building Strong Teams is one of those rare universal ideas. Whether you're running a technology giant like Google, an industrial giant like General Electric, or a hamburger franchise; you need to build a strong team to maximize your company's potential.
My most important lesson in team building came when I was promoted to director of operations with a national Italian restaurant chains. After unprecedented success as a general manager with the company, I was given responsibility for eight restaurants spread across two Southern California counties. The restaurants averaged about $3 million in sales each. Five of the units were operating above average and three were dramatically under-performing.
Being new to multi-unit management, I instinctively focused on problems at the struggling units. After a month of micromanaging these three units from opening to closing it finally hit me. Although the units were improving, they would never be successful with the existing general managers.
The contrast between managers in my best restaurants and those in the weaker units was striking. I coached my best managers on sales building activities, cost control techniques, and nuances of great customer service. The poor performing managers had to be constantly directed on basic ordering, scheduling, and employee relations practices.
The worst thing about the unsuccessful operators was the fact that they seemed perfectly comfortable with being told what to do constantly. If allowed, this relationship would have continued indefinitely and caused me to neglect my important responsibility of growing the whole region.
Fortunately, with input from the human resource department and more seasoned directors, I replaced all three managers over a 90 day period. The results were amazing. Within a year, I was overseeing the best performing region in the western division. Sales, profits, employee morale, operating standards, and manager bonuses were at an all time high.
The entire transformation and long-term success of the region taught me three important principles about team building that have been reinforced throughout my career:
1. Put aces in their places: As an entrepreneur or corporate leader, it is very tempting to do everything and control every detail. It is hard for some to accept that they can actually hire and trained competent people to do thing better than they could. Leaders who figure this out are able to leverage their own talent enormously. Best selling business author Jim Collins uses the analogy of "Getting the right team on the bus and getting them in the right seats.
2. Recruit the best talent you can afford: Obviously, your business model and budget determines how much you can spending on talent. I believe that one should seek to get the best people within in her budget. Settling for "C" performance when "A" prospects are available is a mistake. I admit that "A" players are more difficult to find and usually require a different style of leadership, but the returns on the effort is worth it.
3. Create a development oriented culture: The military is great at this. In the military Lieutenants are trained and expected to become Captains, who are then expected to become Majors or Colonels. Jack Welch points out in his autobiographical best seller Straight From The Gut, that for many years General Electric sustained recruiting and promotion practices that moved their best talent up through the company. Similarly, a small restaurant owner should position dishwashers to become prep cooks, prep cooks to become line cooks, and the most talented line cooks to become kitchen managers.
What this all amounts to is leaders being able to remain focused on the big picture and being free to dig deep into the details as needed, which is much better than drowning in low impact details.
Shed Wallace is a Restaurant Management Expert, Senior Consultant: http://www.EateryCoach.com, and Author: [http://www.EateryTribe.com] Submit questions to Shed at: askeaterycoach@gmail.com
How to find information on an old General Electric Stand Mixer?
I have an old stand mixer that was my grandmothers. I got it when she died. I am trying to find out what year it is from. I want to know as much about the model as possible. Where can I find this information? I checked the panel underneath. It says....
General Electric CAT NO: 149M8 Serial No. A
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