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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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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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If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
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The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.
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Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
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If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
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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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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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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
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No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
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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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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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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.
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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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The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.
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What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.
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We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.
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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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Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.
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