The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that…

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly...

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly...

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security...

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security...

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell...

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell...

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think...

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think...

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because...

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because...

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment...

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment...

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings...

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings...

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell...

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell...

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies...

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies...

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

Be candid with everyone.

Be candid with everyone.

I was afraid of it [the internet]... because I couldn't type.

I was afraid of it [the internet]... because I couldn't type.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly...

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly...

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think...

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think...

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a...

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a...

Change before you have to.

Change before you have to.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to...

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to...