American - Businessman | November 19, 1935 -
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
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If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
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The team with the best players wins.
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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.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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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.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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Change before you have to.
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