Jack Welch on......turning Green into Green

Jack Welch spoke this week at Oklahoma State University's Spears Shcool of Business and these are some highlights of a story posted in the Tulsa World.

• Don't run from the media.
• Legal advise to keep quiet in a crisis is worthless.
• "We played business like it was a sport. You make a game of it, you field the best team and weed out the weakest."
• "The weeds you've got to pull out if you're going to build a beautiful garden."
• He admitted that he basked in "reflected glory" of his best employees' achievements.
• While the layoffs of the past few years put millions of people out of work, many have become self-employed and have access to even greater success if they offer great ideas and work ethics.
• Green is good, but green doesn't turn green into green (money), it doesn't turn out to be a helluva good business.
• The whole idea is to grow jobs. The main social responsibility for a company is to win.
• More than anything, companies need to be consistently improving
• You don't want to surprise people with variation, but find ways to get better.

Good stuff from a man who gave new meaning to increasing stockholder value, but also had a rigurous training, evaluation and correction process to help people get better.

We'll talk more about that next week as I circle back to Talent Masters.

To that end, make it a great day.....

Danny

oh...you can find the complete article I took the highlights from at Tulsa World.