If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. Jack Welch More Quotes by Jack Welch More Quotes From Jack Welch 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 to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better. Jack Welch always-trying innovation team The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it. Jack Welch inspirational believe thinking 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. Jack Welch achievement team winning No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards. Jack Welch rewards vision paper If you reward candor, you'll get it. Jack Welch candor rewards ifs You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders. Jack Welch leader would-be people The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you’re going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office. Jack Welch mirrors morning giving I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities. Jack Welch strong responsibility believe Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end. Jack Welch team talking lying Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve. Jack Welch self-confidence real believe If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. Jack Welch crazy home people I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all. Jack Welch feels inspirational way If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. Jack Welch reputation bigs inspirational You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science. Jack Welch good-life passion golf No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers. Jack Welch challenges jobs inspire Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer. Jack Welch smart block team The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses. Jack Welch leadership dream ideas For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter. Jack Welch insecure self-confidence real In the end, your integrity is all you've got. Jack Welch ends integrity Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. Jack Welch earning inspirational years
