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The hero is the one with ideas.

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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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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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When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
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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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...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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In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.
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We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.
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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 can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.
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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 believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.
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As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.
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Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.
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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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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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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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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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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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If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by
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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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