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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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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.
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Control your destiny or somebody will.
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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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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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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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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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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
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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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What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.
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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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There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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The main social responsibility for a company is to win.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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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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If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
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