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Jack Welch

John Francis "Jack" Welch Jr. was an American business executive, author and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001 presiding over a massive increase in the company's stock valuation.

He was coauthor with his wife Suzy Welch of a widely read weekly business column, The Welch Way, and launched the "Jack Welch Management Institute," an online MBA program.


“When you become a leader success is all about growing others.”
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“Don't lose youself on the way to the top.”
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“Control your own Destiny or somebody else will”
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“Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.”
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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
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“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”
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“When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”
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“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”
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“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”
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“Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.”
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“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.”
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“The final relationship that cannot be ignored is with disrupters:They are individuals who cause trouble for sport - inciting oppositionto management for a variety of reasons, most of them petty.Usually these people have good performance - that's their cover - and sothey are endured or appeased.A company that manages people well takes disrupters head-on.First they give them very tough evaluations, naming their bad behaviourand demanding it change.Usually it won't. Disrupters are a personality type.If that's the case, get them out of the way of people trying to do theirjobs.They're poison.”
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