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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ...

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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is...

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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Change before you have to.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relen...

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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ...

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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you devel...

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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got...

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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the cus...

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Control your own destiny or someone else will.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate...

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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus...

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Jack Welch

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Born: 1935-11-19

Died: N/A

John Francis Welch Jr. (November 19, 1935 – March 1, 2020) was an American businessman who served as Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure, GE increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. Welch also oversaw the firing of more than 100,000 GE employees, and was awarded a severance package of $417 million when he retired in 2001, the largest such payment in history.More