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The hero is the one with ideas.

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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Ideas
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They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.
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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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Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-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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Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.
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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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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
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The main social responsibility for a company is to win.
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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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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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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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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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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else will.
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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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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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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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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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The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.
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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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