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The program Leadership , Innovation and Growth has been designed by the management at General Electric in to facilitate team training in leading change . The strategic focus under the leadership of CEO Immelt has been the growth strategy through expanding businesses and creating new ones rather than through acquisitions . The business of GE that participated in the program was Power Generation , one of the company 's oldest businesses . So far GE 's successes had been spurred by the headquarters . But now Immelt wanted to pass on the responsibility to the teams in the

individual businesses . In to facilitate this delegation of responsibility , the LIG program had been designed . The program facilitated team training to lead change and therefore to embed growth into the DNA of the company . The purpose of the program was to make innovation and growth a religion at GE

The program underscores the value of team training . Under the previous CEO Jack Welch , the strategic focus had been to maximize operational excellence . Now the new CEO Immelt wanted to combine innovation and organic growth with operational excellence to synergistic effects . This meant redesigning the organizational structure . Thus the business issue was the process of managing change . However the focus of traditional training programs had been individual training . Therefore when the employee returned to work on the new initiatives , he faced resistance from the rest of the team who had not been trained . The LIG program addressed this problem by focusing on team training so that the...

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