The Real-Life MBA Quotes

“Your people give their days (and sometimes their nights) to you. They give their hands, brains, and hearts. Sure, the company pays them. It fills their wallets. But as a leader, you need to fill their souls. You can do that by getting in their skin, by giving the work meaning, by clearing obstacles, and by demonstrating the generosity gene. And you can do it, perhaps most powerfully, by creating an environment that’s exciting and enjoyable.”
― Jack Welch, The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career – Pragmatic Solutions for Leaders Facing Modern Work Challenges

“leadership, very simply, is about two things:          1.   Truth and trust.          2.   Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter.”
― Jack Welch, The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career – Pragmatic Solutions for Leaders Facing Modern Work Challenges

“as Google CEO Larry Page put it in his 2014 TED talk: “The main thing that has caused companies to fail, in my view, is that they missed the future.”
― Jack Welch, The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career – Pragmatic Solutions for Leaders Facing Modern Work Challenges

“People with big personalities can make very big targets of themselves.”
― Jack Welch, The Real-Life MBA: The no-nonsense guide to winning the game, building a team and growing your career

“lo que es el marketing en esencia: el producto adecuado, en el lugar adecuado, al precio adecuado, con el mensaje adecuado, ofrecido por el equipo adecuado.”
― Jack Welch, El MBA para la vida real

“You cannot go global on the phone or online,”
― Jack Welch, The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career – Pragmatic Solutions for Leaders Facing Modern Work Challenges

“Every ending is just an opportunity to start again, wiser, more experienced, and more emboldened for the next act.”
― Jack Welch, The Real-Life MBA: The no-nonsense guide to winning the game, building a team and growing your career

“Los líderes existen, en gran medida, para dar sentido —propósito— a sus equipos; para, de manera incansable, apasionadamente, explicar: «Vamos hacia allí. Por tal y tal motivo. Así es como vamos a llegar. Así es como encajas tú. Y esto es lo que vas a ganar con todo esto».”
― Jack Welch, El MBA para la vida real

“Y, claro, todo esto nos lleva a la pregunta de qué es exactamente la alineación. La respuesta es misión, comportamientos y consecuencias.”
― Jack Welch, El MBA para la vida real

“La gente trabaja todo el día, todos los días, intentando mejorar sus organizaciones y sus vidas. Intentando ayudar a sus familias, a sus empleados y a sus colegas, a sus clientes y a las comunidades en las que operan.”
― Jack Welch, El MBA para la vida real

“Stepping back from almost any situation with an underperformer, it’s always easy to see the solution. They need to move on—sooner rather than later. Up close, however, organizations tend to draw out departures, as people fret about the employee’s emotional reaction to being let go. Oftentimes, managers feel guilty about putting a friend out of work, or remorseful they didn’t give candid enough feedback along the way, or both.”
― Jack Welch, The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career – Pragmatic Solutions for Leaders Facing Modern Work Challenges

“The only antidote is simplicity. The simplicity of leading through truth and trust. Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter. In every decision, in every action. Truth is a determined pursuit, a personal and unquenchable fire, burning to know what is really happening inside the company and out.”
― Jack Welch, The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career – Pragmatic Solutions for Leaders Facing Modern Work Challenges