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" If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. "
Jack Welch
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" There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. "
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" Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. 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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" 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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" 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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" The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. "
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" What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. "
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" 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. "
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" Be candid with everyone. "
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" Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. "
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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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You
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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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" Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. "
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" The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. "
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" 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. "
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Think
" 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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Next
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" The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal. "
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" Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. "
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" You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. "
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" Give me a highly successful unionized industry. "
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Give
" The team with the best players wins. "
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" The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. "
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" Control your own destiny or someone else will. "
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" In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States. "
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" Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition. "
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" Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Culture drives great results. "
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