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
Jack Welch quotes about
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
Change before you have to.
Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.
Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.
If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.
No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.
No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.