A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy,… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
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. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. — 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
The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
"Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build 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
