Jack Welch

If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

Jack Welch

In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid – everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.

Jack Welch

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.

Jack Welch

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

Jack Welch

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Jack Welch

Most organizations fail in driving change.

Jack Welch

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Jack Welch

No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That’s the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.

Jack Welch

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

Jack Welch

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you’ve got somebody who’s raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give ’em that shot.

Jack Welch