Jack Welch
Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr.is a retired American business executive, author, and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at GE, the company's value rose 4,000%. In 2006, Welch's net worth was estimated at $720 million. When he retired from GE he received a severance payment of $417 million, the largest such payment in history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 November 1935
CityPeabody, MA
CountryUnited States of America
In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.
When there's change, there's opportunity.
The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.
Most organizations fail in driving change.
Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.
No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.
Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.
If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.