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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
Author
Businessperson
Engineer
Journalist
Manager
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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Hero
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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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If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
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Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.
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The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.
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If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.
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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 productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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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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Trust happens when leaders are transparent.
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You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.
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All of management is about self-confidence
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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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No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.
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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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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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Don't make the process harder than it is.
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
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The secret of success is changing the way you think.
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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
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