Jack Welch Quotes - Page 2

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• The secret of success is changing the way you think.

  Jack Welch

  Thinking, Secret, Way

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• The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

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  Self Confidence, Winning, Simplicity

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• A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

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  Leadership, Jobs, Smart

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• When there's change, there's opportunity.

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  Opportunity

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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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  Team, Winning, Simple

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• Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

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  Opportunity, Missing, Recessions

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• There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

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  Choices, Balance, Consequence

  "Bloomberg discrimination decision loaded against work-life balance" by Janice D'Arcy, www.washingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

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  Positive, Honesty, Integrity

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• Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

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  Opportunity, Organization, Paramount

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• If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

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  Real, Guy, Leader

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• The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Jobs

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• Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

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  Organization, Hierarchy, Faces

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• The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

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  Honesty, Reality, Intellectual

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• You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

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  Winning, Leader, Popularity

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• In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

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  Integrity, Ends

  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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• Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

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  Ideas, Action, Evolution

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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.

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  Inspiring, Leadership, Running

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• I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

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  Inspiring, Teacher, Motivation

  Jack Welch, John A. Byrne (2003). “Jack: Straight from the Gut”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.

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  Team, Winning, Achievement

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• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

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  Life, Change, Strength

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• If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

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  Meaningful, People, Purpose

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• As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

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  Jobs, People, Leader

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• For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

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  Simple, Organization

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• 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.

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  Organization, Competition, Survival

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• Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Self Confidence, Opportunity

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