Jack Welch advice business quotes  

25 Lessons from Jack Welch

 

Former CEO of GE

 

 

Jack Welch Fires an Ineffective Business Architect

Robert Slater, the author of Jack Welch and the GE Way, writes that once Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of GE, requested a meeting with the head of a particular GE business. The business had produced profits, but it certainly was not setting any records, and Welch had a strong feeling that it could do much better.

  Lessons from Business Legends PowerPoint slide deck for teachers

 

 

Jack Welch hoped that meeting would lead to improved performance.

 

3Ss of Winning in Business

 

 

 

 

But his message was lost on the manager. He had no idea what Welch wanted. "Well, help me with that," he pleaded. "Look at my earnings. Look at my return on investment. All the things I'm doing, all the people I've taken on. What the hell do you want me to do?"

 

Know Enemies of your Business

9 Signs of a Losing Organization

 

 

25 Lessons from Jack Welch Leadership Energizing People Be a Winner Energy Results-based Leadership Jack Welch GE e-Coach Jack Welch's 4Es of Leadership Energy Energize Edge Execution  

"I don't know," Welch told him in all honesty. "I just know your business could be doing better."

Welch wanted the man to get some vision. To get some enthusiasm for his work and re-energize his employees.

 

 

 

Finally, Welch had a proposal for the perplexed manager. "What I'd like you to do is take a month off and just go away. When you come back, act as if you were just assigned to the business and you hadn't been running it for four years. Just come in brand new, hold all the reviews, and start slicing everything in a different way."

 

Jack Welch's 6 Rules of Successful Leadership

GE Work-Out

GE Leadership Effectiveness Survey

 

 

Simplocity The Power of Simplicity Flat Organization Fast Decision Making Lessons from Jack Welch: Articulate Your Vision Fast To Market Speed Self-Confidence 3Ss of Winning in Business 25 Lessons from Jack Welch  

The man still didn't get it. He did not understand that Welch wanted him to rewrite his agenda, take a new look at the business plan, and see things with a fresh eye. The CEO of GE didn't think that was asking too much of the man.

 

 

 

But the junior executive was clueless.

He didn't get Welch's insistence that he become excited about his work, and that he figure out how to energize his troops.

Six months later the executive no longer worked for GE.


to learn how to build an Entrepreneurial Organization

  Head of Growth  rapid learning course by VadiK

 

   

Know How To Select a New Corporate Leader