Jack Welch Quotes

When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.

I think I have been able to slow down a little bit and really work on different things... I think I improved on being a leader on the court. Controlling the game, controlling the pace... that is where I have grown.

Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.

As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective.

I always say, as a leader, you've got to know when to get out of the way.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

The best thing you can do as a leader when people are pressed is get the obstacles out of their way.

I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.

Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.

I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.