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“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”
― Jack Welch

“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”
― Jack Welch

“When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”
― Jack Welch

“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”
― Jack Welch

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
― 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

“Change before you have to.”
― Jack Welch

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“The final relationship that cannot be ignored is with disrupters:

They are individuals who cause trouble for sport - inciting opposition
to management for a variety of reasons, most of them petty.

Usually these people have good performance - that's their cover - and so
they are endured or appeased.


A company that manages people well takes disrupters head-on.

First they give them very tough evaluations, naming their bad behaviour
and 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 their
jobs.

They're poison.”
― Jack Welch

“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, Winning

“If you are not confused, you don´t know what is going on.”
― Jack Welch

“It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.”
― Jack Welch

“If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.”
― Jack Welch

“Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“When you become a leader success is all about growing others.”
― Jack Welch

“Control your own Destiny or somebody else will”
― Jack Welch, Jack: Straight from the Gut

“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, Winning

“Take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. Use ample praise, the more specific the better.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“When you own your choices, you own their consequences.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“The mission announces exactly where you are going, and the values describe the behaviors that will get you there.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“When launching something new, you have to go for it—“playing not to lose” can never be an option.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“Don't lose youself on the way to the top.”
― Jack Welch

“Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.”
― Jack Welch

“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, Winning

“Differentiation favors people who are energetic and extroverted and undervalues people who are shy and introverted, even if they are talented.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“IT’S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.”
― Jack Welch, 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, 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, Winning

“Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don’t love.”
― Jack Welch, Winning: The Answers: Confronting 74 of the Toughest Questions