“Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Effective people know when to stop assessing and make a tough call, even without total information. Little is worse than a manager who can’t cut bait.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“When launching something new, you have to go for it—“playing not to lose” can never be an option.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“The mission announces exactly where you are going, and the values describe the behaviors that will get you there.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal, or a piece of market information has to be filled with you saying, “What if?” and “Why not?” and “How come?”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. Use ample praise, the more specific the better.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Underneath, you would surely see that the best care passionately about their people—about their growth and success. And you would see that they themselves are comfortable in their own skins. They’re real, filled with candor and integrity, optimism and humanity.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“We've all been guilty at one point or another in our careers of boasting of perfect hindsight.
It's a terrible sin.
If you don't make sure your questions and concerns are acted upon, it doesn't count.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Differentiation favors people who are energetic and extroverted and undervalues people who are shy and introverted, even if they are talented.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“The third way is less common and certainly less of a layup—a culture of integrity, meaning a culture of honesty, transparency, fairness, and strict adherence to rules and regulations. In such cultures, there can be no head fakes or winks. People who break the rules do not leave the company for “personal reasons” or to “spend more time with their families.” They are hanged—publicly—and the reasons are made painfully clear to everyone.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“RULE 2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“If a job doesn’t excite you on some level—just because of the stuff of it—don’t settle.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“When you own your choices, you own their consequences.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“IT’S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“In my experience, an effective mission statement basically answers one question: How do we intend to win in this business?”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“At the end of the day, effective mission statements balance the possible and the impossible. They give people a clear sense of the direction to profitability and the inspiration to feel they are part of something big and important.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“The boss would be present at the beginning of each session, laying out the rationale for the Work-Out. He or she would also commit to two things: to give an on-the-spot yes or no to 75 percent of the recommendations that came out of the session, and to resolve the remaining 25 percent within thirty days. The boss would then disappear until the end of the session, so as not to stifle open discussion, returning only at the end to make good on his or her promise.*”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“People development should be a daily event, integrated into every aspect of your regular goings-on.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“When you are an individual contributor, you try to have all the answers. That’s your job—to be an expert, the best at what you do, maybe even the smartest person in the room. When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal, or a piece of market information has to be filled with you saying, “What if?” and “Why not?” and “How come?”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“It sounds awful, but a crisis rarely ends without blood on the floor. That’s not easy or pleasant. But sadly, it is often necessary so the company can move forward again.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Companies win when their managers make a clear and meaningful distinction between top- and bottom-performing businesses and people, when they cultivate the strong and cull the weak. Companies suffer when every business and person is treated equally and bets are sprinkled all around like rain on the ocean.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they’ve got. It’s a killer.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“Working to fulfill someone else’s needs or dreams almost always catches up with you.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“That’s more easily said than done;”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
“learning is truly a value, growth for every employee is a real objective, mistakes aren’t always fatal, and there are lots of people around whom you can reach out to for coaching and mentoring.”
― Jack Welch, quote from Winning
Jack Welch
Born place: in Peabody, The United States
Born date November 19, 1935
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“We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being among those who are struggling farther back, and misunderstand, scorn, and even persecute the ones who move ahead of us. History is littered with such as these: eccentrics, geniuses, idealists among those most noticeable. These change the world by force, though the change most often does not take place during their own time, they are so far ahead of it and therefore so rarely understood.”
― Nell Gavin, quote from Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn
“It doesn't exactly fill me with pride."
"For what, being a white man?"
"For being a carbon based life-form.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“I produced a fulsome sermon. When the appointed Sunday arrived, I used all of my best grooming skills. I picked the cat hairs off my most expensive suit, smoothed my hair, and put a Band-aid on the thumb I had chewed while working overtime on my sermon. Once I met the delegation at church I did my best to dazzle them, and after the service was over we sat for almost two hours in a Sunday School room as I answered question after question about my history, my beliefs, my weaknesses, and my strengths. One man on the committee noticed the Band-aid on my thumb. "What did you do to yourself?" he asked sympathetically. "I cut it while I was cooking, "I lied.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, quote from Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“Se di me non sopravvivesse altro che l'odio. Se l'odio germogliare dalla mia fossa, un albero d'odio, esso sussurrerebbe: Achille la bestia. Se lo abbattessero, crescerebbe di nuovo. Se lo soffocassero, ogni filo d'erba farebbe suo quel messaggio: Achille la bestia, Achille la bestia. E ogni cantore che osasse cantare la gloria di Achille, morirebbe immediatamente tra i tormenti. Un abisso di disprezzo e di oblio tra le generazioni future e la bestia. Questo, Apollo, concedimi, se esisti. Non sarei vissuta invano.”
― Christa Wolf, quote from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
“Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the Government. —Bertrand Russell”
― Graham E. Fuller, quote from A World Without Islam
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