Best quotes by Jack Welch on People

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• ‟ If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

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• ‟ The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

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• ‟ You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

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• ‟ CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

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• ‟ You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

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• ‟ Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.

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