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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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Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
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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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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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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.
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Don't lose youself on the way to the top.
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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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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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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 most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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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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When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
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The main social responsibility for a company is to win.
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In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
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Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.
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