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Jack Welch
Jack Welch
American Businessman
Born: Nov 19, 1935
Big Business People Will World You
Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
Control your own destiny or someone else will. Jack Welch
Future Will Own Control Else Destiny Someone Your
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. Jack Welch
Success You Yourself Leader Become Before Others About Success Is Growing
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
Business Learning Organization Action Rapidly Ability Advantage Learn Ultimate Translate Competitive Competitive Advantage
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welch
Good Business Vision Drive Own Completion Relentlessly Leaders Passionately Articulate Create Business Leaders
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. Jack Welch
You People Opportunity Right People Carrier Give Wings Pick Put Almost Spread Manage Behind Them Right Compensation
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition. Jack Welch
Buy Communication Communicate Competition King Three Cash Bury Number Two Number Three
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. Jack Welch
People Cowards Know Managers Where Biggest Stand Who
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. Jack Welch
You World Problems Leader First Big Guy Never Smartest Deal First-Person Got Real Big Deal Hired Person Real Problems Going Room
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts. Jack Welch
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. Jack Welch
You Earnings Later Years Five Squeeze Any Short-Term Company Jerk
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. Jack Welch
People Will Giving Important Self-Confidence Most Most Important Thing Because Important Thing The Most Important Far Then Act Thing
Give me a highly successful unionized industry. Jack Welch
Me Give Give Me Highly Industry Successful
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. Jack Welch
Best World Changed Find Talents Ideas Globalization Greatest Source Intellectual Sell Just Capital Us Company Searches
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. Jack Welch
Success Teacher Good Mistakes Learned Often
Don't manage - lead change before you have to. Jack Welch
You Change Before Lead Manage
You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. Jack Welch
You Management Long Those Eat Long-Term Balancing Manage Short Anybody Short-Term Grow Things Two
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Jack Welch
Strength Business Change Confusion Willingness Total Plunging Part While Means Company Even
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. Jack Welch
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all. Jack Welch
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Culture drives great results. Jack Welch
Great Culture Results Drives Great Results
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. Jack Welch
You Business People World Strategy Every Innovative Touch Something Taking New Like Message Globalization Around Motivate Low-Cost Producer Product Your Products Number Two
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. Jack Welch
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. Jack Welch
Work Work Hard Idea Tenure Terrible Around Forever Them Hard Productivity Now Keeps Universities
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision. Jack 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? Jack Welch
Country Ought Wealthy Only Said Been Years Ordained Who
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century. Jack Welch
Future Strategy GE Investment Wrong Perhaps Couple Dollars Loss Represents China Century Next Billion Billion Dollars Company Right
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