In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
JW
Jack WelchJack: Straight from the Gut (2001)
About Jack Welch
Chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001. (1935-2020)
More from Jack Welch
- Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001)
- Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001)
- Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect.Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001)
- Change before you have to.
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- By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.Jimmy Carter
- We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace.Jimmy Carter
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