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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

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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
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.
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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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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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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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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 you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.
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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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The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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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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The hero is the one with ideas.
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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.
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Be candid with everyone.
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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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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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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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Someone, somewhere has a better idea.
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