Quote

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.

Jack Welch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
Author
Businessperson
Engineer
Journalist
Manager
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
Jr.
John Francis Jack Welch
Jr.
Culture
Home
Hangings
Take
Spend
Time
Crazy
People
Went
Public
Company
Family

More quotes by Jack Welch

Image
Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
Jack Welch
Image
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.
Jack Welch
Image
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Jack Welch
Image
The secret of success is changing the way you think.
Jack Welch
Image
All of management is about self-confidence
Jack Welch
Image
Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
Jack Welch
Image
It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.
Jack Welch
Image
First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival.
Jack Welch
Image
Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
Jack Welch
Image
In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
Jack Welch
Image
If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
Jack Welch
Image
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch
Image
...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.
Jack Welch
Image
In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
Jack Welch
Image
In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.
Jack Welch
Image
Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
Jack Welch