Jack Welch Quotes

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

I love the creative process - brainstorming and coming up with campaigns.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.