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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
Jack Welch
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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They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.
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Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.
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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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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?
Jack Welch
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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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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If you reward candor, you'll get it.
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...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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The secret of success is changing the way you think.
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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 every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.
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You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.
Jack Welch
Protecting underperformers always backfires.
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