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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
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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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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
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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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We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.
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When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.
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The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.
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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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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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Control your destiny or somebody will.
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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Don't make the process harder than it is.
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People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.
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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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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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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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