Jack Welch Quotes

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

Most writing staffs have this crazy high turnover, and then everyone's really miserable, and I don't understand that. I don't know why you don't grow people to then be able to take over as you. That's how I can have more shows.

I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.

If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time.

I think United always had a plan for me. They nurtured me.

Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.

Succession planning has been a major priority at Southwest for quite some time. We think we have come up with a winning combination of talent for our company reorganization.

The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. And now I'm a little bit more selective. I think that's sort of a natural process.

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.