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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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Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.
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For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
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Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?
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Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.
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If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.
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The team with the best players wins.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
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Change before you have to.
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What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers
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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.
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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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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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We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.
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Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.
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If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
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With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'
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