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Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.
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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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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
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Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
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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.
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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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Don't lose youself on the way to the top.
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The team with the best players wins.
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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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When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
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