Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
—Jack Welch
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
—Jack Welch
If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside the end is in sight.
—Jack Welch
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
—Jack Welch
Control your destiny or somebody else will.
—Jack Welch
Topics: Self-Control, Vision, Destiny
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
—Jack Welch
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
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
If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you’re stuck.
—Jack Welch
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.
—Jack Welch
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
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
Culture drives great results.
—Jack Welch
We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, … We have just completed a very successful management transition and I’ve never been more confident about the company’s future.
—Jack Welch
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
—Jack Welch
Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.
—Jack Welch
Topics: Business
Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
—Jack Welch
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you’ve got somebody who’s raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give ’em that shot.
—Jack Welch
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
—Jack Welch
Topics: Business, Vision
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
—Jack Welch
We bring together the best ideas—turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
—Jack Welch
The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
—Jack Welch
Topics: People, Giving, Win, Dreams, Dream
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
—Jack Welch
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
—Jack Welch
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
—Jack Welch
Topics: Authority, Money
You are never too old to get surprised.
—Jack Welch
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
—Jack Welch
Topics: Reality
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.
—Jack Welch
The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand.
—Jack Welch
Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others.
—Jack Welch
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