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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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John Francis Jack Welch
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Business
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Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.
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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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One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.
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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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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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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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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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Protecting underperformers always backfires.
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A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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Don't make the process harder than it is.
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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
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Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.
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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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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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If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by
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The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.
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Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.
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