Control your destiny or somebody will.

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

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.