Jack Welch Quotes
200 Jack Welch Quotes
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The right budgeting process can change how a company functions – and reinventing the ritual makes winning so much easier, you can’t afford not to try.
Jack Welch
The people in the field are operating with one simple goal, albeit unstated: to minimize their risk and maximize their bonus.
Jack Welch
What good is beating targets you set in a windowless room?
Jack Welch
While most people take to reinvented budgeting with enthusiasm, there are always a few diehards who try to undermine it.
Jack Welch
New ventures should report at least two levels higher than sales would justify. If possible, they should report directly to the CEO.
Jack Welch
You will find you are not getting enough money from the mother ship, nor are you getting the best people. Fight like hell – even throw a few elbows.
Jack Welch
You are always going to want more autonomy than you get. Your best shot is to earn it.
Jack Welch
A merger can feel like a death. Everything you’ve worked for, every relationship you’ve forged – they’re suddenly null and void.
Jack Welch
Successful mergers create a dynamic where 1 + 1 = 3, catapulting a company’s competitiveness literally overnight. You just have to do it right.
Jack Welch
Deal heat is completely human, and even the most experienced people fall under its sway.
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Technically, we owned the company, but for all intents and purposes, it was running the show.
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It is uncertainty that causes organizations to descend into fear and inertia. The objective should be full integration within ninety days of the deal’s close.
Jack Welch
Fight the conqueror syndrome. Think of a merger as a huge talent grab.
Jack Welch
If you miss a merger on price, life goes on. There is no last best deal.
Jack Welch
Resisting a deal, no matter how scared, confused, or angry you are is usually suicidal to your career, no to mention your emotional well-being.
Jack Welch
Mergers mean change.
Jack Welch
A huge part of making your customers sticky is meeting or exceeding their expectations…
Jack Welch
‘We’re off to a good start. We’ve hired several statisticians, and we’re looking for more.’ I thought to myself: This poor guy has really drunk the Kool-Aid!
Jack Welch
You need to find ‘your people,’ the earlier in your career the better. No job is ideal without the presence of shared sensibilities.
Jack Welch
Any new job should feel like a stretch, not a layup.
Jack Welch
Working for some companies is like winning an Olympic medal. For the rest of your career, you are associated with great performance.
Jack Welch
Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.
Jack Welch
Working to fulfill someone else’s needs or dreams almost always catches up with you.
Jack Welch
If a job doesn’t excite you on some level – just because of the stuff of it – don’t settle.
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Authenticity may be the best selling point you’ve got.
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The goal, if you’ve been let go, is to stay out of what I refer to as ‘the vortex of defeat,’ in which you let yourself spiral into inertia and despair.
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Every manager in the world knows what ‘I resigned’ or ‘I left for personal reasons’ really means.
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All careers, no matter how scripted they appear, are shaped by some element of pure chance.
Jack Welch
The most reliable way to sabotage yourself is to be a thorn in your organization’s rear end.
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Eventually, he had to leave the company. In the end, there wasn’t a person left with any desire to spend political capital on him.
Jack Welch
Career lust shows itself in tearing down the people around you, insulting or disparaging them in order to make your own candle burn brighter.
Jack Welch
The boss-subordinate relationship is easy to neglect. Your boss is in your face, and your peers are on your mind, while your subordinates do what you say.
Jack Welch
Business is like any game, with players, a language, rules, controversies, and a rhythm. The media covers it all.
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You can win without being upbeat – if every other star is aligned – but why would you want to try?
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The world has jerks. Some of them get to be bosses.
Jack Welch
In any bad boss situation, you cannot let yourself be a victim.
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Generally speaking, bosses are not awful to people whom they like, respect, and need. Think hard about your performance.
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What an awful feeling when your boss is not on your side.
Jack Welch
There is a reason why kids don’t tattle on bullies. Unfortunately, the same principle applies in the office.
Jack Welch
Work-life balance is a swap – a deal you’ve made with yourself about what you keep and what you give up.
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