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The secret of success is changing the way you think.

Jack Welch

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Journalist
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.
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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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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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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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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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Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.
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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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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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Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
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