Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, September 22, 2013 – Jack Welch
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, September 22, 2013 – Jack Welch
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
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“Be candid with everyone.”
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“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
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“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”
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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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“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.”
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“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
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“Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.”
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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
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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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“The team with the best players wins.”
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“Change before you have to.”
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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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“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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“Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition.”
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“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.”
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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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“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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“Culture drives great results.”
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