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Leadership Quotes by Jack Welch

50 Leadership quotes by Jack Welch

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Jack Welch says a leader’s job is to help people grow and succeed. He stresses that a good leader must move around the whole organization, stay open, and keep the team excited about the mission. He also believes that being honest about reality is the most important quality for any leader.

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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

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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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“Control your own Destiny or somebody else will”

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When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

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Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

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

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No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how…

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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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The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize…

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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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Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.

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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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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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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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One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated…

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