Leadership Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break a Leader (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership)

Gap awareness, in stretch assignment passage, 67

General Electric (GE), 52, 56

Crotonville training facility of, 91, 121

failure toleration at, 84, 91

former executives of, 37–38, 198

general manager training at, 74

global leadership training of, 142

RCA acquisition by, 121

stretch assignments at, 67–68

strong culture of, 37–38, 198

General manager (GM) position: challenges of, 70–76

importance of, 70, 71–72

know-it-all attitude in, 74

mind-set of, 71–74

paradoxes managed by, 76–79

passage of promotion to, 70–80

pitfalls in, 74–76

preparation for, 73–74

as stretch assignment, 58–59, 64

traits suitable for, 79–80

General Mills, 3, 56, 88, 151

George, B., 3, 27, 36, 38, 103, 108, 128, 209

Globalization, 141

Globalizing, of negative events, 114

Glynn, R., 3, 46, 54, 83, 84, 190

Goleman, D., 11, 187–188

Grieving: in acquisition-or-merger passage, 121

in personal upheaval passage, 172, 173, 176

Group perspective, transitioning to, 45–57

Guiliani, R., 172, 175