An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch on business
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Jack Welch on business
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welch on business
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. Jack Welch on business
The Internet is the Viagra of big business. Jack Welch on business
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. Jack Welch on business
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Jack Welch on change
Don't manage - lead change before you have to. Jack Welch on change
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition. Jack Welch on communication
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type. Jack Welch on computers
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. Jack Welch on family
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. Jack Welch on food
Control your own destiny or someone else will. Jack Welch on future
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. Jack Welch on future
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. Jack Welch on health
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. Jack Welch on home
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch on learning
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. Jack Welch on medical
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. Jack Welch on money