GE believes that his ability to develop talent management is a core competency, which is the source of sustainable competitive advantage. Traces the development of the 25-year old MBA named Jeff Immelt, who 18 years later is named as CEO of GE, perhaps the largest and most complex corporate work leadership in the world, and how it creates and implements its priorities for GE. Describes the processes managed Immelt own developments and policy changes Immelt takes in his first year as CEO when he pulls hard on the complex human resource levers his predecessors had left him. Immelt question whether the changes in place will contribute to the development of a new generation of leaders, GE growth.
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by Christopher A. Bartlett, Andrey N. McLean Source: Harvard Business School 18 pages. Publication Date: September 25, 2006. Prod. #: 307056-PDF-ENG