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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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No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.
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There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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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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The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
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Change before you have to.
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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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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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All of management is about self-confidence
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Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.
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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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You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.
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People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.
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The secret of success is changing the way you think.
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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.
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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.
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