I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia? — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia,… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
