Jack Welch

United States
Born on 19 Nov 1935
Business Executive / Author

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If you find a way to get rid of the hierarchical nonsense and allow ideas to flourish, it doesn't matter if you're in Budapest or Beijing.

Financial Times (London) (1997)
Most global corporations have three or four competitors, and you know who they are.

Harvard Business Review (1989)
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.
The only ideas that count are 'A' ideas. There is no second place. That means we have to get everybody in the organization involved. If you do that right, the best ideas will rise to the top.

'GE Keeps These Ideas Coming,' Fortune (1991)
The job for big companies, the challenge that we all face as bureaucrats, is to create an environment where people can reach their dreams � and they don't have to do it in a garage.

Fortune (May 1995)
Simplicity is an indispensable element of a leader's most important functions.

Speech (November 1989)
The leader's unending responsibility must be to remove every detour, every barrier to ensure that vision is first clear, and then real.

Speech (November 1989)
It is ours to win with � if we can shift gears from decades of controlling things to a decade of liberty � turning people loose to dream, dare, and win.

Leaders (1993)
For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

Quoted in In Search of European Excellence (1997)
The point of work-out is to give people better jobs. When people see that their ideas count, their dignity is raised. Instead of feeling numb, like robots, they feel important.

'Jack Welch's Lessons for Success,' Fortune (1993)
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