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Jack Welch
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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis 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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When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
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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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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
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The main social responsibility for a company is to win.
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You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
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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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The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
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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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Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
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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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I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change 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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Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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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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