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Transformational Leadership

 
25 Lessons from Jack Welch

By: Vadim
Kotelnikov

 

 

Management Insight and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary Former CEO of GE

The techniques and ideas that Welch has employed to move GE forward are
applicable to any size corporations, small, medium, or large.

 

 

Our vision is to create the world's most competitive enterprise.

Jack Welch

GE

 

 

Jack Welch's goal was to make GE "the world's most competitive enterprise". He
knew that it would take nothing less than a "revolution" to transform that dream
into a reality. In his self-proclaimed revolution, Welch waged war on GE's old
ways of doing things where forms and approvals and bureaucracy ruled the day.
Jack Welch reinvented the company from top to bottom.

 

 

 


 

 

 

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Creating an Extraordinary Organization  ▪  GE Values Guide

Leading Organizational Transformation at GE  ▪  3Ss of Winning

Create Change  ▪  7-Point Change Program for Leadership

 

 



 

 

25 Lessons from Jack Welch

 

 

 

 Lead more, manage less

 

 

1. Lead

Managers muddle – leaders inspire. Leaders are people who inspire with clear
vision of how things can be done better... More

What we are looking for are leaders at every level who can energize, excite and
inspire rather than enervate, depress, and control.

Jack Welch

GE

 

 

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2. Manage Less

In the new knowledge-based economy, people should make their own decision.
Managing less is managing better. Close supervision, control and bureaucracy
kill the competitive spirit of the company. "Weak managers are the killers of
business; they are the job killers. You can't manage self-confidence into
people."

We are constantly amazed by how much people will do when they are not told what
to do by management.

Jack Welch

GE

 

 

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3. Articulate Your Vision

The best leader do not provide a step-by-step instruction manual for workers.
The best leaders are those who come up with new idea, and articulate a vision
that inspires others to act... More

Leaders inspire people with clear visions of how things can be done better.

Jack Welch

GE

 



 

 

4. Simplify

Keeping things simple is one of the keys to business success. Have the courage
to be simple. Simplicity is practically an art form, with many definitions.
"Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the
elimination of clutter allows faster decision making."... More

You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple... Clear tough-minded
people are most simple.

Jack Welch

GE

 

 

5. Get Less Formal

Harness the power of an informal place. "Today form isn't allowed. Global
battles don't allow forms. It's all substance. Form means somebody is not
intensely interested in the company."... More

Without needless rules, titles, and approvals people are not afraid to voice
their ideas, even they go against conventional company wisdom.

Jack Welch

GE

 

 

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6. Energize Others

Be energized and energize others. Genuine leadership comes from the quality of
your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
Getting employees excited about their work is the key to being a great business
leader... More

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited.

All you have to do is tap into that well.

Jack Welch

GE

 

 

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What It Takes To Be a Great Corporate Leader  >>  The Role

The Role of the Leader in the New Economy  >>  6 Rules

Top Management Team  ▪  GE Leadership Effectiveness Survey

 

 

 

7. Face Reality

Face reality, then act decisively. Most mistakes that leaders make arise from
not being willing to face reality and then acting on it. Facing reality often
means saying and doing things that are not popular, but by coming to grips with
reality would things get better.

 

8. See Change as an Opportunity

Change is a big part of the reality in business. "Willingness to change is a
strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for
a while... Keeping an eye out for change is both exhilarating and fun."... More

→ How To Overcome Resistance to Change: Kore 10 Tips

9. Get Good Ideas from Everywhere

New ideas are the lifeblood of business. "The operative assumption today is that
someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find
out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action ‒ fast."

10. Follow up

Follow up on everything. Follow-up is one key measure of success for a business.
Your follow-up business strategy will pave the way for your success.

 

 


 

Build a Winning Organization

11. Get Rid of Bureaucracy

The way to harness the power of your people is "to turn them loose, and get the
management layers off their backs, the bureaucratic shackles off their feet and
the functional barriers out of their way."... More

→ Inspiring People: 4 Strategies

12. Eliminate Boundaries

In order to make sure that people are free to reach for the impossible, you must
remove anything that gets in their way. "Boundarylessness" describes an open
organization free of bureaucracy and anything else that prevents the free flow
of ideas, people, decisions, etc. Informality, fun and speed are the qualities
found in a boundaryless organization.



13. Put Values First

Don't focus too much on the numbers. "Numbers aren't the vision; numbers are the
products." Focus more on the softer values of building a team, sharing ideas,
exciting others... More

14. Cultivate Leaders

Cultivate leaders who have the four E's of leadership: Energy, Energize, Edge,
and Execution;  leader who share values of your company and deliver on
commitments.

→ Leadership-Management Synergy 

15. Create a Learning Culture

Turn your company into a learning organization to spark free flow of
communication and exchange of ideas. "The desire, and the ability, of an
organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere - and to rapidly
convert this learning into action – is its ultimate competitive advantage."

  

 


 

Harness Your People for Competitive Advantage  >>>

16. Involve Everyone

Business is all about capturing intellect from every person. The way to engender
enthusiasm it to allow employees far more freedom and far more responsibility...
More

17. Make Everybody a Team Player

Managers should learn to become team players. Middle managers have to be team
members and coaches. Take steps against those managers who wouldn't learn to
become team players.  >>>

18. Stretch

Set stretch goals.  Stretch targets energize. "We have found that by reaching
for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and
even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than
we would have done."... More



19. Instill Confidence

Create a truly confident workforce. Confidence is a vital ingredient of any
learning organization. The prescription for winning is speed, simplicity, and
self-confidence. Self-confident people are open to good ideas regardless of
their source and are willing to share them. "Just as surely as speed flows from
simplicity, simplicity is grounded in self-confidence."

20. Have Fun 

Fun must be a big element in your business strategy. No one should have a job
they don't enjoy. If you don't wake up energized and excited about tackling a
new set of challenges, then you might be in the wrong job... More

→ Life-Business Synergy

   

Build the Market-Leading Company  >>>

21. Be Number 1 or Number 2

"When you're number four or five in a market, when number one sneezes, you get
pneumonia. When you're number one, you control your destiny. The number fours
keep merging; they have difficult times. That's not the same if you're number
four, and that's your only businesses. Then you have to find strategic ways to
get stronger.  But GE had a lot of number ones."... More

22. Live Quality

"We want to change the competitive landscape by being not just better than our
competitors, but by taking quality to a whole new level. We want to make our
quality so special, so valuable to our customers, so important to their success
that our products become the only real value choice."



23. Constantly Focus on Innovation

"You have just got to constantly focus on innovation. And more competitors.
You've got to constantly produce more for less through intellectual capital.
Shun the incremental, and look for the quantum leap." Now the fundamentals have
got to be more education. More information knowledge, faster speeds, more
technology across the board... More

24. Live Speed

"Speed is everything. It is the indispensable ingredient of competitiveness."
Speed, simplicity and self-confidence are closely intertwined. By simplifying
the organization and instilling confidence, you create the foundation for an
organization that incorporates speed into the fabric of the company... More

→ Surprise To Win: 3 Strategies

25. Behave Like a Small Company

Small companies have huge competitive advantages. They "are uncluttered, simple,
informal. They thrive on passion and ridicule bureaucracy. Small companies grow
on good ideas – regardless of their source. They need everyone, involve
everyone, and reward or remove people based on their contribution to winning.
Small companies dream big dreams and set the bar high ‒ increments and fractions
don't interest them."... More

 

 


 





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