Jack Welch’s Six Rules For Success

by George Ambler on Sunday, September 17, 2006

  1. Control your own destiny or someone else will.
  2. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were.
  3. Be candid with everyone.
  4. Don’t manage, lead.
  5. Change before you have to.
  6. If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete!

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1 sonam Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 5:01

Did jack welch write any 35-55-80 rule?

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2 Ash Majumdar Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 4:54

No Jack does talk about the 20-70-10 rule in his book Winning. 35-55-80 would be over and beyond 100%. Jack kind of borrows from the Pareto’s law of 20% of employees being the top performers. He asks one to nurture the other 70% to strive to be part of the 20, and the rest you know.

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A.

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