“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.

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