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Jack Welch argues that everyone should be heard and respected, no matter how experienced or creative they are. He believes that when people feel their ideas matter, competitiveness is freed, and he reminds us that business isn’t rocket science. He also warns against refusing to learn after forty.

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Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

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

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People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

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Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

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The world belongs to passionate driven people.

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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

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Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

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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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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course,…

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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

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Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them…

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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say,…

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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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If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do…

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The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I…

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Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate…

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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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Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way…

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In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that…

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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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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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You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success…

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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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Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In…

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Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the…

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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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Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance…

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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

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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 social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people…

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Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are…

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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

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What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

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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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CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the…

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Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

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The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time…

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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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Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and…

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

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No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything…

Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming…

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out…