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Jack Welch Inspirational Quotes (159)

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.
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In the end, your integrity is all you've got.
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If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
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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.
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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.
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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.
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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.
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When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
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Don't make the process harder than it is.
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The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.
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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.
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It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
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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.
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The secret of success is changing the way you think.
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