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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
Manager
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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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 you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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The team with the best players wins.
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No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.
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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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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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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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What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers
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Don't make the process harder than it is.
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One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.
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You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.
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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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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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If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
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Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.
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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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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 difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.
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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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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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