If you like business, you have to like GE. If you like ideas, you have to love GE. This is a place where ideas can flow freely from and through more than 20 separate businesses and more than 300,000 employees. Boundaryless behavior allows ideas to come from anywhere. We formalize our freewheeling style in a series of operating meetings that blend into one another.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- GE encourages boundaryless idea flow across businesses through formalized operating meetings and a freewheeling culture.
- In plain terms
- Ideas should flow freely across the company without borders.
- What can you take from it?
- Break boundaries to let ideas spread.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you break silos in your work?
- What stops ideas from flowing in your org?
Another view
Too much openness can lead to decision fatigue.
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