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LEADERSHIP SECRET FACTS

HARNESS THE POWER OF CHANGE
The mindset of yesterday’s manager—accepting compromise, keeping things tidy—bred complacency. Tomorrow’s leaders must raise issues, debate them, and resolve them. They must rally around a vision of what a business can become. Jack Welch 

FACE REALITY
The art of leading comes down to one thing: facing reality, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Stop complaining and take action to overcome your inner fear so as to have victory over the situation.

 MANAGING LESS IS MANAGING BETTER
As we became leaner, we found ourselves communicating better, with fewer interpreters and fewer filters. We found that with fewer layers we had wider spans of management. We weren’t managing better. We were managing less, and that was better.

CREATE A VISION AND THEN GET OUT OF THE WAY
 People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn’t rocket science. We’ve chosen one of the world’s simplest professions.

DON’T PURSUE A CENTRAL IDEA; INSTEAD, SET ONLY A FEW CLEAR, GENERAL GOALS WITH DYNAMIC STRATEGIES
I am not going to attempt, for the sake of intellectual neatness, to tie a bow around the many diverse initiatives of General Electric.