My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course,… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated. — 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
I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are… — 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
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's… — 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
People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I think every leader has an obligation - the absolute obligation - to treat everyone fairly. But they also have the obligation… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it.… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can… — 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 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
You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success… — 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
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
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
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
Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making. — Jack Welch Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Jack Welch Copy Share
Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. — Jack Welch Copy Share
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out… — Jack Welch Copy Share
