Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

One mediocre general is better than two good ones.

Mobilize people and resources to get results, Not small results but big results. Spend 80% of your time doing development work. Only 20% your time doing administrative work. Never be bureaucrats. Always be leaders.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

When I served as Prime Minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once and ended my administration in failure.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.