When there's change, there's opportunity. Jack Welch More Quotes by Jack Welch More Quotes From Jack Welch Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time. Jack Welch powerfulbelievepeople Trust happens when leaders are transparent. Jack Welch transparentleaderhappens Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee. Jack Welch mindtryingway Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple. Jack Welch insecuresimplebook Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important. Jack Welch gamesjobsideas I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. Jack Welch motivationinspiringteacher If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. Jack Welch guyleaderreal Protecting underperformers always backfires. Jack Welch team-buildingbuildingteam You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. Jack Welch dreamlongcommitment All of management is about self-confidence Jack Welch self-confidencemanagementself People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget. Jack Welch teamplayerideas One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot. Jack Welch smellinspirationaljobs There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. Jack Welch consequencebalancechoices If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow. Jack Welch cash-flowwould-berunning Nothing is worse than the person in their 40s who says, 'I'm not going to learn this.' 'I don't carry an iPad.' That will label you and put you right in the corner. Some people do it as a badge of honor. I've seen them myself, they walk around bragging [about not knowing much about technology]. Jack Welch ipadstechnologyknowing Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas. Jack Welch confidenceambitionself HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired? Jack Welch killersimportantshould When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight. Jack Welch exceedendssight Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking. Jack Welch communicationrealattitude Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done. Jack Welch targetdonewind
