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With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'

Jack Welch

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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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Leadership
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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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No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
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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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The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.
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I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.
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