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Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

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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
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
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Protecting underperformers always backfires.
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We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.
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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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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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The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.
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