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People get tons of gifts during the holidays. They also find themselves in the position where they do not know what to do with them. There are sweaters they never get to wear, accessories they do not like or decors that don’t fit their style. Ingrid Callot proposes the idea of regifting them to others who you know will have the need of them. But there are several rules that should be followed when it comes to regifting and that includes rewrapping the gift, not using the gift before regifting them and not giving them back to their original owners.

It used to be that regifting is not accepted as a social norm. But with the sudden downturn of the economy, people must find a way to go around the annoyingly high expectations of gift-giving. In the US, December 18 is the “National Regifting Day” or what is commonly known as the Yankee Swap events or white elephant gift exchanges. Ingrid Callot got the idea from her idol Oprah Winfrey who proposed a variant of regifting which she mentioned as one of Oprah’s Favorite Things during the recession-themed 2008 episode. Regifitng is now becoming more acceptable especially to environmentally and budget-conscious individuals who encourage the Green Gifting concept.

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It was now also one of the items that are now being sold online and have the gold price. You can buy for the gold coins, bullion and even silver right on your computer. There is the gold prices and the which has their website that you can access to show their spot gold product. They have the dedicated staff which are professionals who can handle all your needs. Now there will be more people who can easily have their gold with the gold spot without any risk.

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But where to begin? To understand that question in context, one has to know the ethos of GE. Outsiders say that the GE monogram is stamped on the rear ends of its people. And well it might be, given the average of twenty-five years that senior managers have been with the company. They share knowledge, traditions, a history, a value system, and a self-image. From early on it is drummed into GE managers that the company’s image must be protected at the expense of short-term gains that compromise quality or integrity. Though the company was shaken by a price-fixing scandal that sent some GE vice-presidents to, jail, high standards of “ethical entrepreneurship,” moral integrity, hallmark quality, and technical leadership had long been integral to GE’s self-image.
Despite its size, its many divisions, and the enormous range of its products, GE is not a conglomerate. GE’s monogram is affixed to all products. (Hotpoint added “Made by General Electric” on its appliances.) That monogram constitutes a banner and a franchise under which everyone wins or loses—the “toaster rubs off on the turbine” theory—fostering the “one company” image. When Ralph J. Cordiner, Borch’s predecessor, decentralized GE in the early 1950S into no businesses, managers were continuously reminded they were still part of GE. Loyalty is highly valued, first to the company as a whole and then to one’s businesses. Self-aggrandizement is not tolerated. In fact, some believe that when Fortune featured Dr. Thomas A. Vanderslice as a potential successor to Jones, that killed his chances.
Loyalty is exemplified in another way. No one interviewed for this chapter, even those who had left the company, would say much that was negative about Jones or GE. Nor would they speak with financial reporters who sought to interview former GE executives about their GE experiences. That loyalty, together with strong hierarchical control and entrepreneurial-minded managers, makes for extreme responsiveness to corporate signals. When Fred Borch gave the signal that the company had to become international, according to Jones, “You couldn’t go into the airport at Frankfurt any day of the week without seeing two or three GE people moving through Frankfurt at the same time.” GE managers rushed pell mell to buy up companies—too many of which had to be divested in the next five years.
“GE has a unique culture. It’s a family. We enjoy each other. We don’t lose many in the family of GE people. We’re so supportive of each other,” said Jones. “We try desperately to save an individual who has failed, by placing him in a job that better matches his capacities, in order that that individual can make a contribution to the organization. We save many people. There is a renaissance of these people in many instances.” This is not merely pious talk. In one case, Jones demoted a failing group head to a regional vice-presidency where the latter’s customer contact and business expertise won him respect. In another, a senior executive requested demotion to a position in which he subsequently gained accolades.
The easy give-and-take informality that marks and promotes the network of friendships and collegial fellowship at GE is expressed in the emphasis on teamwork. GE executives come from many origins. There are said to be no old school ties or ethnic or regional cliques among them. Plaudits are shared with the group, and competition is muted and gentlemanly. An observer might even say that it is suppressed. This may explain the insiders’ image of the company as having a low incidence of politics. The expression of caring and concern for people is balanced by a reverence for analytical, objective approaches to business. Some attribute this to the large numbers of scientists and engineers in the organization. Conservative comportment in dress and speech (profanity raises eyebrows) is paralleled by marked financial conservatism. “It’s a mature company, balanced, sound, solid, one of the most financially conservative companies,” Jones remarked, adding, “A foreign visitor once said, ‘The company reminds me of a staid old woman who looks both ways before going across the street.’”
Another facet of the company’s character had nearly led to a financial rout. “I knew that GE traditionally never gives up on anything,” Jones told a reportel. as he replayed his role in the venture into computer manufacturing, and in the 1970 retreat. An early booster of entry into computers, Jones, then financial vice-president, sounded the alarm in 1970 to reassess that costly effort. “We never appreciated the size of the opportunity and we never devoted the resources to it that we should have,” Jones told the Wall Street Journal. He was a key member of the task force assigned the job of reexamining the venture. They proposed and won approval for immediate withdrawal, and Jones was asked to execute it. His and others’ analyses showed GE’s strength in international markets and Honeywell’s in the United States, GE’s strength in the largest and smallest computer lines, Honeywell’s in the middle. Combining the two product lines and the marketing organizations would create a strong competitor, an outcome that negotiator Jones impressed upon Honeywell as well as the Justice Department. He spent nine months negotiating the deal. Out of the subsequent sale to Honeywell, GE recouped $240 million of its losses.2 Pundits note that had GE delayed a year or two longer, it would have had to close out that business at a far greater loss. Many believe, as Jack Parker said, it was literally Jones’s crowning achievement.3
There was no organizational revolution when Jones took over. He knew he had to work “with the grain.” It was not a matter of going along to get along; he abhorred the prospect of a GE turned bureaucratic. But Jones grasped that the grain—GE’s traditions, its culture— was the transducer through which he would harness, energize, stabilize, and steer this leviathan through whatever economic seas it might encounter.

Reg Jones and the three vice-chairmen, all of whom had been contenders for his office, now had to learn to work with each other despite their respective feelings. As would Ian MacGregor and Jack Hanley in the chapters to come, Jones had to cope with contenders who remained. Describing his experiences managing the disappointment and hostility of former rivals who became his subordinates as he moved through the ranks, he said, “I took the soft approach, coaxed them, let them work out their hostility by my being humble and friendly.” By June, 1973, six months into his new role, he had dissolved the vague vice-chairman “cognizance” concept. Instead, he made each vice-chairman directly responsible for certain designated’ operating groups and corporate staff components. Responsibilities and accountabilities became clearer. Each was also able to be a “vocal advocate” for his groups in the competition for financial and personnel resources. This change from cognizant to direct responsibility wasn’t accepted instantly. How did Jones deal with the initial resistance to this role change? “I wouldn’t accept the responsibility. When we were in a meeting, when they asked me what I was going to do about a problem, I asked, ‘What are you going to do about it? You are responsible for the operation. Do it. Tell me what you intend to do and then do it.’”
Anticipating major thrusts on the fiscal front and others, Jones began to realign the management system at the top. (Realignment to enhance competitive adaptation was tackled by each of our CEOs.) Executives unable or unwilling to meet his standards were replaced over the years, according to insiders, by a phalanx of more competitive hands-on, hard- nosed, broad-gauge operating executives. (This, too, characterizes the direction each CEO took.)
The six corporate staff senior vice-presidents together with the Corporate Executive Office (the chairman and three vice-chairmen) now comprised a new structure, the Corporate Policy Committee, “a forum for reviewing and communicating matters of broad corporate concern.” Jones was laying the groundwork for the later dissolution of the corporate executive staff. Jones had R. L. Johnson, vice-president of executive manpower, report directly to him. Like Borch, he would be preoccupied with succession from the beginning. He would not leave the development of managers to chance, nor relegate it to a staff function.
In 1973, Jones initiated a company organization study to formulate a long-range plan into 1981/1982 for an evolving structure that would provide orderly succession and manageability of the greatly enlarged organization he anticipated. He had no specific idea of what that structure should look like. He began by thinking out loud with Johnson and some of his staff. He told them he was unsure where the ensuing discussions would lead, but he wanted help in preparing a detailed outline for a future discussion with top management of the company. He rambled, thinking aloud about some major outline headings and some concepts he wanted to have included. He asked them to keep integrating their continuing discussions into an evolving report. He supplemented the staff’s detailed notes of these meetings with his own preliminary notes. He, himself, was known for near-verbatim, highly legible notetaking in outside meetings. This process of consultative thinking which led to a formal document was only the beginning of what was to become a trademark of Jones’s style and effectiveness. He would soon gather the best and the brightest staff expertise to assault external threats as well.
Jones had collected i6o items in notes to himself about managment issues. In August, 1973, he began to clarify and document his “Management Style and Related Convictions” (a collection of ideas from the i6o he had noted). Some were maxims, some guidelines, some directives to himself. These included:
1. Minimize ambiguity. (Change the functions of the vice-chairmen and the corporate executive staff, and ensure that people know the purpose of a meeting—decision-making meetings versus review meetings versus communications meetings.)
2. Do your homework. (This becomes more critical as you attain higher responsibility, see the big picture, and know enough details to personally perform “validity tests.” Be willing to read in depth and breadth.)
3. The necessity of strategic planning. (“Surprises” are a cardinal sin. See each business situation for what it is and not through one’s emotional glasses of what one might like to think it is. Make strategic planning a way of life.)
4. Personal relationships. (Have a firsthand knowledge of your customers and their needs, knowing people as individuals; listen with both ears and be willing to “level” with people and to be
“leveled” with.)
. Decision making. (Provide a vehicle that fosters consensus—tempered by the willingness to make decisions where consensus is not achieved. Be ready to stimulate, implement, and live with change. Be prepared to take difficult or unpopular remedial actions where results continue to fall below objectives. Be willing to take risks, make mistakes, and learn from them, and afford one’s subordinates the same opportunity.)
6. Put on the “company hat.” (Be willing to accept actions that may have a negative impact upon a particular component but are in the best interests of the company as a whole.)