Jack Welch: Quotes about change

Jack Welch is American executive: General Electric CEO. Explore interesting quotes on change.
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“When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.”

Jack Welch

Variant: If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Change

“Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.”

Jack Welch

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.

People , Confidence , Idea , Courage

“Change before you have to.”

Jack Welch
Change

“I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more— from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people…If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.”

Jack Welch

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 9.

People , Change

“Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.”

Jack Welch

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.

Business , Change , Success

“Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.”

Jack Welch

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 12.

Change

“Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone—from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium—is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.”

Jack Welch

Cited in: Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, and Roland R. Cavanagh. The six sigma way. McGraw-Hill,, 2000. p. 4

Way , Change