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Be candid with everyone.

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
Author
Businessperson
Engineer
Journalist
Manager
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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Inspirational
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Control your destiny or somebody will.
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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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The team with the best players wins.
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Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?
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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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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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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by
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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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