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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.
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Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.
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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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The hero is the one with ideas.
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If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.
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As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.
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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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They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.
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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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