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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

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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
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.
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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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What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers
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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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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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Protecting underperformers always backfires.
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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
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A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
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The main social responsibility for a company is to win.
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If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
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For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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The secret of success is changing the way you think.
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
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Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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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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