Jack Welch Quotes about Team

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.

Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

The team with the best players wins.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.