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You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

Jack Welch

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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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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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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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.
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Trust happens when leaders are transparent.
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Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.
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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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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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On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.
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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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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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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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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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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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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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Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.
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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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