1: Jack Welch returned from his trip to Japan in 1993 on fire about the power of stretch goals.

As GE’s CEO, the story of the Japanese bullet train inspired him to rethink his approach to goal-setting, according to Charles Duhigg in Smarter Faster Better.

Within six months, every GE division had a stretch goal.

But there was a catch.

Jack and the division leaders didn’t always agree on … continue reading