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Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Businessperson
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Journalist
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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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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If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.
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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.
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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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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.
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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
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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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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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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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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
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If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
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Keep learning don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth always assume that you can learn something from someone else.
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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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The secret of success is changing the way you think.
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