There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
Jack WelchThe binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.
Jack WelchSimple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
Jack WelchYou hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.
Jack WelchInsecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything theyโve known since childhoodโฆโฆ. They worry that if theyโre simple, people will think theyโre simple minded. In reality, of course, itโs just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.
Jack Welch