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Control your destiny or somebody will.

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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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People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
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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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A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
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I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.
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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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No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
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I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.
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Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.
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Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
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Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.
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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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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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When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
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