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If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
Jack Welch
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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
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When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
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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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Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else will.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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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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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
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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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