Jack Welch

Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.

Jack Welch

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Jack Welch

So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about – and that’s winning. Your needs may get heard – and even successfully resolved – but not if the boss’s needs aren’t met as well.

Jack Welch

Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that’s what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

Jack Welch

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.

Jack Welch

There are no finite answers to many questions. What really counted was your thought process.

Jack Welch

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies – in the minds of those closest to the work.

Jack Welch

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

Jack Welch

When it’s time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

Jack Welch