Jack Welch Quotes - Page 7

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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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  Inspirational, Ideas, Intellectual

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• The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

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  Art, Mistake, Simple

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• Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

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  Creativity, Keys, Top Management

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• We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

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  Service Culture, Ideas, Intellectual

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• If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

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  Risk, Example, Want

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• I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

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  Inspirational, Computer, Internet

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• I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

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  Leadership, Sports, Mother

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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.

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  Inspirational, Teaching, Names

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• On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

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  Ideas, World, Faces

  "GMO Capital's James Montier Destroys The Idea That Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Good" by Myles Udland, www.businessinsider.com. December 2, 2014.

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• In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

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  Victim, Situation, Can Not

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• I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

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  Caring, People, Giving

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• This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

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  Inspirational, Shows

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Keys

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• The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

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  May, Emotion, Grids

  Jack Welch (2014). “Jack: What I've learned leading a great company and great people”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

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  Strategy, Pondering

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• Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

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  Lying, Team, Talking

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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.

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  Crazy, Home, People

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• Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.

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  Inspirational, Powerful, Simple

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• Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.

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  Mother, Jobs, Decision

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• If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.

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  Team, People, Add

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

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  Acting, Way, I've Learned

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• Culture drives great results.

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  Inspirational, Culture, Results

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• My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.

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  Jobs, Light, Ideas

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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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  Attitude, Perception, Energy

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• If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.

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  Real, Ideas, Innovation

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