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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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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 we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.
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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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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.
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Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.
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The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.
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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
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Be candid with everyone.
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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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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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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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