Jack Welch quotes - page 3

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader. (Jack Welch)
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite. View quote
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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. View quote
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The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence. View quote
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The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people. View quote
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Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances. View quote
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Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down. View quote
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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. View quote
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The team with the best players wins. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Jack Welch)
Don't manage - lead change before you have to. View quote
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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. View quote
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. View quote
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States. View quote
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs. View quote
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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? View quote
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work. View quote
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Jack Welch)
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. View quote
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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams. View quote
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No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. View quote
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Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity. View quote
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