Jack Welch
"What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros."
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"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
"Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term."
"You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that."