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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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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
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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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All of management is about self-confidence
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
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Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them.... everyone deserves a chance.... you can never let yourself be a victim.
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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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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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
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Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.
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If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.
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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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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
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Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.
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Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.
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Control your destiny or somebody 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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