Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
Author
Businessperson
Engineer
Journalist
Manager
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
Jr.
John Francis Jack Welch
Jr.
Terrible
Forever
Idea
Around
Tenure
Ideas
Universities
Hard
Productivity
Work
Keeps
University
More quotes by Jack Welch
Be candid with everyone.
Jack Welch
Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.
Jack Welch
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
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.
Jack Welch
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
When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
Jack Welch
HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?
Jack Welch
Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.
Jack Welch
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
No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
Jack Welch
Control your destiny or somebody will.
Jack Welch
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
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
It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.
Jack Welch
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
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.
Jack Welch
People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.
Jack Welch
A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
Jack Welch
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
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch
