”What I learned about Leadership from Jack Welch”
MG 620 Leadership in Organizations
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else,
through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
~Vince Lombardi
“…No commander is capable of the actual leading of an entire company in combat… the spread of strength and the great variety of the commander’s problems are together beyond any one man's compass, and…therefore a part of his problem in combat is to determine which are the moral leaders among his men when under fire, and having found them, give all support and encouragement to their effort.”
S. L. A. Marshall
Men Against Fire
Marine Corps Institute Distance Education Course 8105 “Leadership”
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I have learned many lessons from Jack Welch on leadership. Jack Welch has been with the General Electric Company (GE) since 1960. Having taken over GE with a market capitalization of about $12 billion, Jack Welch turned it into one of the largest and most admired companies in the world by the time he stepped down as its CEO 20 years later, in 2000. Jack Welch used his uncanny instincts and unique leadership strategies to run GE, the most complex organization in the world and increased its market value by more than $400 billion over two decades. He remains a highly regarded figure in business circles due to his innovative leadership style. Jack Welch demonstrated Kouzes and Posner’s five practices of modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart, by both his words and ...