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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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In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.
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Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.
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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 world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.
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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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If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
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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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It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.
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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
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Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.
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When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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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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Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?
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Protecting underperformers always backfires.
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We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.
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