Investing in People is to spend time with them, and to treat them from the heart as the most important asset of the company.
50 Classic Quotations
As the most influential professional manager in the world, his management essence is also worth savoring.
Here are Jack Welch classic quotes:
1. Shoot all formalistic gobbledygook.
2. Don't organize the operation of the company by command.
3. Live in harmony and cooperate closely with the most intelligent people in the subordinates.
4. Never be stingy with senior talents as long as they think they are worth it.
5. Always use the top business talents and dig them up at all costs.
6. Strive for opportunities when they come.
7. Change people without ambiguity and employ people without frowning.
8. In any industry, we should only focus on the leader.
9. Do not get involved in cyclical industries whose performance is often influenced by changes in the external environment and which are beyond their control.
10. Concentrate on the fight against bureaucracy without compromise.
11. Don't spend too much energy trying to change people who don't fit the company's culture and requirements. Just fire them and look for them again.
12. Let employees discover and see the meaning of their work and its realization mechanism.
13. Try to respect those who have the ability and let those who have no ability go away.
14. Discover and form a talent reserve in the middle of your career and call it at any time.
15. Eliminate people without passion.
16. Set goals that can only be achieved by jumping up.
17. Act ahead of change.
18. Look for people with team motivation.
19. Cut ties with controlling, conservative, and tyrannical managers.
20. Be prepared to fully analyze the possible actions of the opponent.
21. Make the company more flexible through digitalization.
22. Inculcate the values of public welfare and the sense of integration into the community, and strive for the geographical and human advantages in the implementation of the globalization strategy.
23. Take care of the best people in the company and give them rewards, support, bonuses, and power.
24. Punish one or two failures, then fire; celebrate each improvement, though it may still be far from the overall goal.
25. Encourage and even force everyone to come up with their own ideas.
26. Discussion and research can go on for hours, but be sure to argue to get close to the real answer.
27. The old organization is built on control, and the new organization must add an element of freedom.
28. They only face the realistic business prospects and never consider the so-called prospects according to their own expectations and predictions.
29. Directly link the learning and promotion of employees.
30. In terms of employing people, there are no shackles in their minds, and they completely break down the views of rank, family and seniority.
31. Only participate in the most promising areas in the industry and divest the departments without room for innovation.
32. Communicate with employees, eliminate the role of police in management, and do not blindly try to catch subordinates.
33. Inside the company, ideas, stimuli, and energy must flow and travel at the speed of light.
34. Good ideas come from all directions, and ideas should be communicated anytime, anywhere.
35. Establish an extreme penchant for thorough preparation and realistic analysis of large numbers of charts.
36. Let excellent talents feel their own value in the main battlefield and the front line of the company.
37. Instill your own culture, including self-confidence, into everyone in the company.
38. Establish the internal school of the company.
39. Change from a monitor, a checker, an attention-giver, and an approver to a provider of convenience, a proposer, and a collaborator of business operations.
40. Bureaucracy is often accompanied by formalism.
41. Emphasize the company's unified values through the "Value Guide Memo Card".
42. Get everyone and every mind involved in the company's affairs.
43. Each department in the company's business strategy combination is one of the best, so the pricing power in the competition will be very large, and the risk of the company's combination can be dispersed.
44. Productivity can not be improved by layoffs or mergers, but by self-pressure.
45. Distinguish the internal and external culture of the company, and require yourself and others to always be consistent in implementing the internal culture.
46. The less management, the better the company.
47. Attitude is everything.
48. Grant the greatest support and resources to the best people.
49. Be consistent. Simplify. Repeat. Persist. It's that simple.
50. It should be normal for different business divisions to exchange opinions without boundaries.
50条经典语录
作为全球最有影响力的职业经理人，他的管理精粹也值得细细回味。
以下为他的经典语录：
1、枪毙一切形式主义的官样文章。
2、不要以命令组织公司的运行。
3、与部属中最聪明的人和睦相处、密切配合。
4、对高级人才只要认为值得，付出绝不吝啬。
5、始终使用最顶尖的业务人才，不惜代价挖到手。
6、机会来临全力争取。
7、换人不含糊，用人不皱眉。
8、任何行业，只把眼光盯住龙头老大。
9、不涉足业绩经常为外边环境的变化所左右的、自己无法控制的周期性行业。
10、集中精力，绝对不妥协的向官僚主义开战。
11、不要花太大的精力试图改变不符合公司文化和要求的人，直接解雇他们，然后重新寻找。
12、让员工发现和看见自己的工作的意义及其实现机制。
13、竭力尊重有能力的人，而让没有能力的人滚蛋。
14、在职业生涯中间发现和形成人才储备，随时调用。
15、剔除没有激情的人。
16、制定跳起来才可能够得到的目标。
17、先于变化采取行动。
18、寻找有团队激励能力的人。
19、与控制欲强的、保守的、暴虐的管理者断绝关系。
20、随时准备全面分析对手可能采取的行动。
21、通过数字化使公司更加灵活。
22、灌输公益价值观和融入社区的意识，争取实施全球化战略中的地利和人和。
23、小心关照公司的最佳人员，给他们回报、提携、奖金和权力。
24、惩罚一到两次失败，然后就是解雇；庆祝每一次进步，虽然也许离开总目标仍然很远。
25、鼓励甚至逼迫每个人提出自己的独到见解。
26、讨论和研究可以连续几个小时的进行，但是一定要争吵，以贴近真实答案。
27、旧组织建立在控制之上，新组织必须添加自由的成分。
28、只面向现实的经营前景，从不按照自己的期望、预测的所谓远景考虑问题。
29、将员工的学习与晋升直接挂钩。
30、在用人方面，头脑里没有任何桎梏，完全打破等级、门户、辈分之见。
31、只参与行业内最有前景的领域，剥离没有创新空间的部门。
32、与员工沟通，消除管理中的警察角色，不要一味企图抓住下属的小辫子。
33、在公司内部，点子、刺激、能量必须源源不断并且以光速传播。
34、好主意来自四面八方，点子的沟通应该随时随地。
35、建立起对于充分的准备工作和对大量图表进行现实分析的极端癖好。
36、让优秀的人才在公司的主战场和第一线感受他们自己的价值。
37、将自己的文化包括自信灌输给公司的每个人。
38、建立公司内部学校。
39、从监视者、检查者、乱出注意者和审批者，转变为提供方便者、建议者、业务操作的合作者。
40、官僚主义往往与形式主义为伴。
41、通过“价值指南备忘卡”强调公司统一的价值观。
42、让每个人、每个头脑都参加到公司事务中来。
43、公司的业务战略结合体中间每个部门都数一数二，那么在竞争中的定价权就会很大，公司结合体的风险就可以分散。
44、生产率不是裁员或者合并就可以提高的，必须自我加压。
45、将公司的内部和外边文化区别，并且要求自己和其他所以人在贯彻内部文化方面始终言行一致。
46、管理越少，公司越好。
47、态度决定一切。
48、将最巨大的支持和资源授予最优秀的人才。
49、一致，简化，重复，坚持，就是这么简单。
50、不同事业部之间无界限的交换意见应该是很正常的事情。
