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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
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Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.
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The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.
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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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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
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You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.
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In the end, your integrity is all you've got.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.
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Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.
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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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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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It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.
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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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