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The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.

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
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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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There is no straight line to a dream.
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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 think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.
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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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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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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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Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
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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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Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
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Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
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No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
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If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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