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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
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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Grow
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Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else will.
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Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
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If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
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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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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
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Don't make the process harder than it is.
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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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Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
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What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.
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There is no straight line to a dream.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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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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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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Don't lose youself on the way to the top.
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