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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

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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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Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
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Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.
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Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.
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The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.
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You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
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