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People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Businessperson
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
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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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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
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Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
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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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When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
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