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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
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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Trust happens when leaders are transparent.
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...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.
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Don't make the process harder than it is.
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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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Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.
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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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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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In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.
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On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.
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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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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
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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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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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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
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