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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
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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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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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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On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.
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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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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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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
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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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Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
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If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
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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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People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.
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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 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.
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Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
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If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.
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