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I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position. -- Jack Welch
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If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to. -- Jack Welch
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For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter. -- Jack Welch
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We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work. -- Jack Welch
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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim. -- Jack Welch
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In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted. -- Jack Welch
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People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted. -- Jack Welch
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Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do. -- Jack Welch
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs. -- Jack Welch
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The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were. -- Jack Welch
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? -- Jack Welch
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Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple. -- Jack Welch
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For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple. -- Jack Welch
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Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful. -- Jack Welch
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Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making. -- Jack Welch
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When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go. -- Jack Welch
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I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot. -- Jack Welch
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A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else. -- Jack Welch
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. -- Jack Welch
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HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired? -- Jack Welch
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As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated. -- Jack Welch
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Take lack of candor ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end. -- Jack Welch
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Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story. -- Jack Welch
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. -- Jack Welch
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it. -- Jack Welch
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I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people. -- Jack Welch
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If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them -- Jack Welch
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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams. -- Jack Welch
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I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved. -- Jack Welch
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business. -- Jack Welch
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Control your own Destiny or somebody else will -- Jack Welch
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Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them ... everyone deserves a chance ... you can never let yourself be a victim. -- Jack Welch
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. -- Jack Welch
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If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do. -- Jack Welch
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Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity. -- Jack Welch
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Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important. -- Jack Welch
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Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent. -- Jack Welch
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Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership's perception of you follows your behavior. -- Jack Welch
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Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth. -- Jack Welch
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What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia? -- Jack Welch
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My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work. -- Jack Welch
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. -- Jack Welch
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I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up. -- Jack Welch
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Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time. -- Jack Welch
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Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage. -- Jack Welch
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Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times. -- Jack Welch
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Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously. -- Jack Welch
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Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge. -- Jack Welch
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Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. -- Jack Welch
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In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell. -- Jack Welch
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The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning. -- Jack Welch
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Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking. -- Jack Welch
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Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will -- Jack Welch
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Control your destiny or somebody will. -- Jack Welch
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The world belongs to passionate driven people. -- Jack Welch
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. -- Jack Welch
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Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas. -- Jack Welch
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The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people. -- Jack Welch
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Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail. -- Jack Welch
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If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by -- Jack Welch
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One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company. -- Jack Welch
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur. -- Jack Welch
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Any company trying to compete ... must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee. -- Jack Welch
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Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will. -- Jack Welch
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to. -- Jack Welch
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The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you're going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office. -- Jack Welch
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You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page. -- Jack Welch
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We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future. -- Jack Welch
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Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets. -- Jack Welch
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. -- Jack Welch
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The secret of success is changing the way you think. -- Jack Welch
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Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances. -- Jack Welch
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. -- Jack Welch
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GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets. -- Jack Welch
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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer. -- Jack Welch
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work. -- Jack Welch
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You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead. -- Jack Welch
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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people. -- Jack Welch
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I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people ... If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence. -- Jack Welch
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People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget. -- Jack Welch
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Be candid with everyone. -- Jack Welch
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Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete. -- Jack Welch
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If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation. -- Jack Welch
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What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers -- Jack Welch
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. -- Jack Welch
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. -- Jack Welch
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts. -- Jack Welch
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So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well. -- Jack Welch
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That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers. -- Jack Welch
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Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer. -- Jack Welch
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The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses. -- Jack Welch
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If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time. -- Jack Welch
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Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning. -- Jack Welch
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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. -- Jack Welch
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all. -- Jack Welch
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Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are. -- Jack Welch
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Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done. -- Jack Welch
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The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins. -- Jack Welch
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"Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?" -- Jack Welch
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Failing to differentiate among employees - and holding on to bottom-tier performers - is actually the cruelest form of management there is. -- Jack Welch
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Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less. -- Jack Welch
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot. -- Jack Welch
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They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive. -- Jack Welch
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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long. -- Jack Welch
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If you reward candor, you'll get it. -- Jack Welch
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The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor. -- Jack Welch
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The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal. -- Jack Welch
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You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents. -- Jack Welch
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Someone, somewhere has a better idea. -- Jack Welch
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Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession. -- Jack Welch
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Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers. -- Jack Welch
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If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel? -- Jack Welch
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Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer yes to the question, Am I living the life I choose? -- Jack Welch
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. -- Jack Welch
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If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people. -- Jack Welch
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I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities. -- Jack Welch
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Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen. -- Jack Welch
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Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence. -- Jack Welch
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You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science. -- Jack Welch
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People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. -- Jack Welch
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We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game. -- Jack Welch
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I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside. -- Jack Welch
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry. -- Jack Welch
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. -- Jack Welch
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When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living. -- Jack Welch
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Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch
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Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected. -- Jack Welch
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. -- Jack Welch
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Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance. -- Jack Welch
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I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here. -- Jack Welch
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Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else. -- Jack Welch
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No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers. -- Jack Welch
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Every great leader has a generosity gene. -- Jack Welch
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The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards. -- Jack Welch
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When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight. -- Jack Welch
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In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate. -- Jack Welch
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If a job doesn't excite you on some level - just because of the stuff of it - don't settle. -- Jack Welch
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. -- Jack Welch
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Today, all arrows point toward the biotech, nanotech, and information technology industries, and the convergence among them. -- Jack Welch
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The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game. -- Jack Welch
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My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light ... And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs. -- Jack Welch
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas. -- Jack Welch
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Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader. -- Jack Welch
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It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy. -- Jack Welch
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There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition. -- Jack Welch
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If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. -- Jack Welch
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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. -- Jack Welch
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The hero is the one with ideas. -- Jack Welch
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Trust happens when leaders are transparent. -- Jack Welch
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What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed. -- Jack Welch
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. -- Jack Welch
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An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people. -- Jack Welch
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century. -- Jack Welch
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The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence. -- Jack Welch
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies. -- Jack Welch
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A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be -- Jack Welch
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility. -- Jack Welch
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All of management is about self-confidence -- Jack Welch
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I never put myself out there as an employment agency, -- Jack Welch
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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal. -- Jack Welch
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Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important. -- Jack Welch
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Number one, cash is king ... number two, communicate ... number three, buy or bury the competition. -- Jack Welch
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You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders. -- Jack Welch
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IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward. -- Jack Welch
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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist. -- Jack Welch
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When employees underperform, a leader tells them so. -- Jack Welch
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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader. -- Jack Welch
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Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers. -- Jack Welch
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Shun the incremental and go for the leap. -- Jack Welch
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Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest. -- Jack Welch
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On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world, -- Jack Welch
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If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. -- Jack Welch
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When there's change, there's opportunity. -- Jack Welch
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I've learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough. -- Jack Welch
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Good leaders have a generosity gene. -- Jack Welch
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. -- Jack Welch
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When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others. -- Jack Welch
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Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders. -- Jack Welch
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First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival. -- Jack Welch
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Creative artists have great passion. -- Jack Welch
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Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view. -- Jack Welch
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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think. -- Jack Welch
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In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game. -- Jack Welch
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In the end, your integrity is all you've got. -- Jack Welch
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This shows you are never too old to get surprised. -- Jack Welch
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Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company. -- Jack Welch
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You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe. -- Jack Welch
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The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation. -- Jack Welch
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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy. -- Jack Welch
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. -- Jack Welch
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Don't lose youself on the way to the top. -- Jack Welch
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Don't make the process harder than it is. -- Jack Welch
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As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization. -- Jack Welch
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Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights. -- Jack Welch
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No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company. -- Jack Welch
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I was afraid of the internet ... because I couldn't type. -- Jack Welch
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No one is guaranteed a job in this. -- Jack Welch
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The main social responsibility for a company is to win. -- Jack Welch
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RULE 2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it. -- Jack Welch
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The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes. -- Jack Welch
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If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere. -- Jack Welch
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. -- Jack Welch
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. -- Jack Welch
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything. -- Jack Welch
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The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast. -- Jack Welch
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Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision. -- Jack Welch
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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game. -- Jack Welch
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No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. -- Jack Welch
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up. -- Jack Welch
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Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant. -- Jack Welch
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When you become a leader success is all about growing others. -- Jack Welch
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You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand. -- Jack Welch
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There is no straight line to a dream. -- Jack Welch
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. -- Jack Welch
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When you own your choices, you own their consequences. -- Jack Welch
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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it -- Jack Welch
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Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed. -- Jack Welch
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If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts! -- Jack Welch
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The team with the best players wins. -- Jack Welch
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Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career. -- Jack Welch
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. -- Jack Welch
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People development should be a daily event, integrated into every aspect of your regular goings-on. -- Jack Welch
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Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don't love. -- Jack Welch
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A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite. -- Jack Welch
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Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing. -- Jack Welch
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation. -- Jack Welch
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When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more. -- Jack Welch
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Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day -- Jack Welch
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Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it. -- Jack Welch
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With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this ... how big can we grow it ... and how fast can we get there?' -- Jack Welch