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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
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John Francis Jack Welch
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Inspirational
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.
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You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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Control your destiny or somebody will.
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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.
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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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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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