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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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Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.
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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
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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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Don't make the process harder than it is.
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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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Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
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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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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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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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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
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Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.
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They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.
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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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No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
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Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
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