Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.

The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.

Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.