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Leader Quotes by Jack Welch

52 Leader quotes by Jack Welch

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A leader standing in a circle shows how a person can lift others toward a shared goal. The quotes stress that real leadership means helping people grow, staying honest about reality, and spreading energy instead of staying the smartest in the room. They also remind us that a leader’s main job is to bring out the best in everyone.

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Every great leader has a generosity gene.

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

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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

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Good leaders have a generosity gene.

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Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

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When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

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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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Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

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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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“RULE 2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.”

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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…

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As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

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An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia,…

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I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a…

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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…

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Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

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For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence…

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You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it.…

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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in…

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One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to…

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I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy,…

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I think every leader has an obligation - the absolute obligation - to treat everyone fairly. But they also have the obligation…

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The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then…

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Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood…….…

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

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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

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

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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

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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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Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

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A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

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

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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

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As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.

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Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you…

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You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

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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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