Many consider Jack Welch to be the greatest CEO in history. And they have good reason to do it. Jack Welch was chairman and CEO at General Electric between 1981-2001, when he managed to increase the company's value by 4000% (incredible) and make GE the most valuable company in the world at that time.
Many have questioned the hard way in which he led the company. In any case, Jack Welch's career is a compulsory study subject for any business school that respects.
After retiring from GE's leadership, Jack Welch became a consultant and especially a motivational speaker, addressing, of course, the topics he best knows - management and leadership.
1) Create a "wow" team at the workplace. "You've got to make a place where you want to hang out, be with these people." - Jack Welch
Work - you have to make it a place where you want to spend your time, be with those people
2) Be generous with praise and "put people in the right positions where they feel like their work is the most meaningful." - Suzy Welch
Be generous with praise and put people in the right positions where they can feel that their work is something
3) Hire people that have a good match with the values and culture of the company. "You can smell a phony and a mile away." - Jack Welch
Engages people who fit well with the company's values and culture. You can smell a fake one miles away.
4) "Your job as a boss is to get every brain in the game. We are basically breaking down silos and we have to break down barriers of behavior. Never forget that, whether you have a startup or a big company. "- Jack Welch
Your job as a boss is to bring every brain into play. We have to break the walls and remove the barriers of behavior. Never forget this, whether it's a start up or a big company.
5) "Make people feel like they're more part of the organization than just the pay check." - Suzy Welch.
Make the employees feel like they are part of the organization, not that they are a record on the state of payment.
6) "Never lose focus on the customer, you can not lose sight of that, especially in this day and age of social media." - Jack Welch
Never lose customers out of sight, especially nowadays when we live in the social media age.
7) "Do not have just one mentor. See everything and everyone as a mentor. "- Jack Welch
Do not have one mentor but look at all that surrounds you as a mentor.
8) "Overdeliver - to the sea, open their eyes, make it bigger." - Jack Welch.
Delivering more than expected, do more, and larger open your eyes
9) "Keep learning, be curious and then you get turned on by everything else." - Jack Welch
Keep learning, be curious and excite yourself of anything
10) "Start again and again and again. We do not live in a linear world anymore but one where people have second and third career and reinvent themselves. "- Suzy Welch
Start again and again and again. We no longer live in a linear world, but in a world where people reinvent themselves and have a second and third career.