Zitat des Tages von Jack Welch:
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Change before you have to.
Be candid with everyone.
I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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.
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
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.
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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%.
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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.
Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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.
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.