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

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
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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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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The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.
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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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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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In the end, your integrity is all you've got.
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The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.
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If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
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On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
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In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.
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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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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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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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There is no straight line to a dream.
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Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.
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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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If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
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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 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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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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