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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Businessperson
Engineer
Journalist
Manager
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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In the end, your integrity is all you've got.
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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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When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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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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Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.
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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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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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If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by
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In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.
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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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Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
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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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Keep learning don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth always assume that you can learn something from someone else.
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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
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No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.
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