by Jack Welch
boss haters
Boston Red Sox
boundarylessness
See also best practices
BP
Bronfman, Edgar
budgeting
candor and
implementation of
link to compensation
Negotiated Settlement approach
operating plan as alternative
Phony Smile approach
stretch goals for
Buffett, Warren
bureaucracy
organization chart and
See also layers
business and society
AIDS and
corporate governance and
government contracts and
tsunami victims’ aid and
U.S. Steel Kosice and
volunteering and
business culture. See company culture
Campbell, Jim
candor
benefits of
in budgeting
implementation of
importance of
integrity and
leadership and
in people management
in performance reviews
rarity of
reasons for lack of
career lust
career management
evaluation system and
factors in
finding first job
finding right job
gender and
getting fired
getting on radar screen
getting promoted
hindrances to
job choice and
job fit, characteristics of
luck and
mentors and
mergers and
political capital and
setbacks and
stalls in
working for adversarial boss
work-life balance and
“car wrecks,”
Case, Steve
Case Corporation
Cathcart, Si
Cavuto, Neil
CBS
celebration, importance of
change
hiring and promoting to implement
importance of connecting to clear purpose
response to resisters
seizing adverse opportunities
change agents
charged relationships
Chase Manhattan-J.P. Morgan & Co. merger
Chemical Bank-Manufacturers
Hanover merger
China
competition and
future of
joint ventures with
resource allocation and
Churchill, Winston
Citigroup
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
CNBC
CNH Global N.V.
CNN
Coca-Cola
communication
about change
during crisis
with customers
about mission and values
strategy and
company culture
candor and
deviance from
differentiation and
good corporate governance and
integrity and
job fit and
learning culture
merger fit and
mission and
societal concerns and
values and
voice and dignity and
work-life balance and
compensation
budget operating plan and
differentiation and
job choice and
mission and
as motivation
severance packages and
See also bonuses; rewards
competition
best practices and
as boss’s top priority
budget process and
candor and
change initiatives from
China threat and
conventional responses
differentiation and
European Union and
Five Slides assessment approach
job seekers and
mergers and acquisitions and
Six Sigma and
strategic position and
three warhorses of
unions and
Conaty, Bill
conqueror syndrome
continual improvement
Continuum Series
Cooke, Janet
corporate boards
corporate culture. See company culture
corporate scandals
mission-values disconnect and
cost reduction
candor and
as competition response
Six Sigma and
Cox, Vivienne
crisis management
changes wrought by
company survival and
emotional experience of
five assumptions of
full disclosure in
ineffective
media and
ownership of solution in
plan of action for
prevention of
underestimation of problem
Culligan International
cultural differences
differentiation and
mergers and acquisitions and
work-life balance
cultural fit, See also job fit; work-life balance
culture. See company culture
customer loyalty
DaimlerChrysler
Dammerman, Dennis
Dance, Dave
Dead Man Walking effect
deal heat
De Beers
Dell
de Molina, Alvaro
differentiation
controversy around
cultural values and
definition of
fairness of
firing and
importance of
leadership and
management of middle
management of top
underperformance and
dignity. See voice and dignity
Dimon, Jamie
Disney
Disney World
disrupters
diversity
Donegan, Dick
Dunne, Jimmy
DuPont
earn-out package
eBay
Ebersol, Dick
edge
EMI
employee brand phenomenon
energize
energy
and leadership
positive
Enron
entrepreneurship
change and
China and
New Europe and
See also leadership
ethics. See fraud; integrity; values
EU (European Union)
evaluation system. See performance evaluation
execution, See also best practices
Expedia
exposure quota
face time
fairness
family. See work-life balance
Fast Company (magazine)
FedEx
feedback. See performance evaluation
Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio
Fiat
Financial Times
firing
aftereffects of
candor and
of change resisters
Dead Man Walking effect
for economic reasons
emotional impacts of
for integrity violations
job comeback after
as manager’s job
mistakes of
mutually agreeable parting vs.
for nonperformance
performance evaluation system and
surprise elimination in
See also layoffs
first job
Five Slides assessment
Fleet Bank-Ban
k of America merger
flexibility
budgetary
work arrangements
Ford, Henry
Fortune (magazine)
4-E (and 1-P) framework
for new ventures
Fox News Channel
France
fraud
prevention of
Sarbanes-Oxley Act and
See also corporate scandals
Fresco, Paolo
Friedman, Stew
FTD
Fubini, David
Gandhi, Mohandas
Gartner, Michael
Gary Drug
Gates, Bill
GE (General Electric)
audit staff of
best practices and
core values of
corporate board of
Crotonville training center of
diversity and
exposure quota and
globalization and
mission of
unions and
GE Aircraft Engines
GE Appliances
GE Capital
GE Consumer Products Group
GE Fanuc Automation
GE Medical
GE90 engine
GE Plastics
GE Power Systems
GE Transportation
Giuliani, Rudy
globalization
GM (General Motors)
golf
government, See also Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Grossman, Larry
growth
budget process and
career and personal
mergers and acquisitions as
organic
strategic competition and
Grupo Bimbo
gut calls
Gutoff, Reuben
Harrison, Bill
Hasbro
Heidrick & Struggles
Henson, Dan
Hewett, Wayne
hiring
acid tests of
FAQs (frequently asked questions) about
4-E (and 1-P) framework for
gut calls in
interview process and
of leaders
mistakes in
See also people management
Hitachi
Home Depot, The
honesty. See candor; integrity
Honeywell
HR (human resources)
qualities needed for
strategy and
work-life balance and
Hume, Brit
IBM
Illinois Tool Works
Immelt, Jeff
India
information
full disclosure of
lack of candor and
layers hindering
innovation
instinct. See gut calls
integrity
corporate boards and
crisis prevention and
firing for violations of
in hiring
in performance evaluation system
Sarbanes-Oxley Act and
intelligence
Internet
Intersil
interview process
single question to ask
Ireland
Japan
competition and
differentiation and
Jeter, Derek
Jett, Joe
job fit
job fit chart
job search
after being let go
finding first job
finding right job
when caught in vortex of defeat
when stuck in job
John Deere
Johnson & Johnson
Johnston, Larry
Jones, Reg
JPMorgan Chase
Kachmer, Mike
Kampouris, Manny
Kant, Immanuel
Kelleher, Herb
KFC
Khosrowshahi, Dara
Kidder Peabody
King & Spalding
Klein, Joel
Klimkowski, Steve
Krenicki, John
labor unions. See unions
Lack, Andy
Lafley, A.G.
lawyers
layers
layoffs
media reports of
from mergers and acquisitions
preparation for
See also firing
leadership
building teams and
characteristics of
crisis management and
eight rules of
hiring for
mergers and acquisitions and
of new ventures
Six Sigma and development of
See also people management
Levin, Jerry
LeVino, Ted
Lexan
lifestyle. See work-life balance
Little, Mark
Lombardi, Vince
Lowe’s
luck
market analysis. See also competition; strategy
Matsushita
maturity
Maytag
MCI
McKew, Maxine
McKinsey & Company
McNerney, Jim
media
coverage of business crises by
as a mentor
mergers and acquisitions and
new ventures and
See also television
mentors
Merck
merger of equals (MOE)
mergers and acquisitions
conqueror syndrome
cultural vs. strategic fit
impact of deal heat
integration timetable
resistance to
reverse hostage situation
seven pitfalls of
strategy and
meritocracy. See differentiation
Messier, Jean-Marie
Mexico
Michelson, G. G.
Microsoft
middle
management of
Miller, Rick
mission
communication of
creation of
reinforcement of
mistakes
admitting and fixing
in hiring
resilience and
Monferino, Paolo
motivation
differentiation and
effective mechanisms for
of middle 70 percent
Motorola
Moynihan, Brian T.
MSNBC
Murdoch, Rupert
Nardelli, Bob
Navetta, Chris
Nayden, Denis
NBC
NBC News
Negotiated Settlement approach to budgeting
networking
New Europe
newspapers. See media
new ventures
autonomy and
common mistakes in
leaders of
organizational visibility of
resentment toward
strategic competition and
See also mergers and acquisitions
New York City public schools
New York Times
New York Yankees
Northwestern Memorial Health Care
Noryl
Novak, David
Nunn, Sam
office politics, See also bosses; work-life balance
open-book management
operating plans
vs. budgeting
optimism
O’Reilly, Bill
organic growth
autonomy and
cheerleading for
fighting for resources for
guidelines for
management of
reporting directly to CEO and
three common mistakes
organization chart
outsourcing
Packard, Dave
Pai
ne Webber
passion
pastor-parent types
pay. See compensation
Penske, Roger
people management
candor and
change and
crisis management and
differentiation and
diversity and
firing and layoffs and
four principles of
HR and
leadership and
mergers and
motivation mechanisms for
new ventures and
organization chart and
performance evaluation system for
relationships with subordinates and
six fundamentals of
stars and
strategy and
underperformers and
values and
voice and dignity and
work-life balance and
PepsiCo
performance evaluation
bureaucracy and
components of
differentiation and
employee development and
firing and
four Es and
lack of candor in
leadership and
need for meaningful
personal blind spots and
promotions and
trust and candor in
Peters, Susan
Philips
Phony Smile approach to budgeting
Pizza Hut
political capital
positive attitude
positive energy
power trip
praise
Pratt & Whitney
Procter & Gamble (P&G)
productivity
competition and
Six Sigma and
from Work-Out process
promotions
face time and
performance evaluation system and
political capital drains and
Quackenbush, Chris
quality See also Six Sigma
quotas
R & D (research and development)
RCA
Reagan, Ronald
recognition
Reed, Charlie
Reiner, Gary
Reliance Electric
repetitive activities, Six Sigma and
resilience
resisters
resource allocation
differentiation as
new ventures and
strategy as
responsibility taking
reverse hostage situation
rewards
differentiation and
for great ideas