Comments on: Jack Welch’s Strategy to Blog Reading (The Solution to Information Overload)

By: Ankesh Kothari

Ankesh Kothari — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:12:30 +0000

Eric: Thanks for your opinion. I tend to agree with you when it comes to employees. In fact - I don’t even believe that status reports can show which employees are in the bottom 10% for most tasks.

But you can adapt Welch’s strategy for other purposes. Combine it with a limitation strategy (that determines how big your core is/should be) and you will always improve the performance of that particular purpose.

For eg: in the purpose of RSS feeds - determine that your core is 20 or 30 feeds. And then use the Welch strategy to get rid of 10% every week - until you reach 30 feeds. And then, every so often - review your feeds again. This way, you will always improve the feeds you read.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:40:07 +0000

Welch’s idea of firing the bottom 10% works great for about 3 cycles. Then you’re into your talented core team. I disagree with this approach and don’t it was the critical key to GE growth.

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:02:21 +0000

You made a good point. I have over 300 blogs bookmarked and over 60 RSS FEED subscription. I spent hours and hours read through those posts and find meaningful one.

Great way to reduce the amount of time on reading blog. I am glad that I word for myself, otherwise, I might be fired by my boss.

By: Ankesh Kothari

Ankesh Kothari — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:15:59 +0000

Thanks Jamie for your constant kind words and encouragement.

Thanks Sunil too.

By: Sunil Parmar

Sunil Parmar — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:28:20 +0000

It was an amazing read & your blog site is too good.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:05:16 +0000

Wow! I’ve read many people talk about information overload. But no one made it as interesting and easy to act on as you Ankesh. You are definately in my top 20 blog feeds.