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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Businessperson
Engineer
Journalist
Manager
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
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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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Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.
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As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.
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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.
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Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.
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The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
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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.
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You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.
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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.
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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