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Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

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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If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.
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In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.
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When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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Don't lose youself on the way to the top.
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Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.
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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.
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The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
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Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.
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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 we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by
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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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