Nurture the employees who live up to company values, even if they don’t make their numbers. Consider reassigning them if their numbers continue to falter.
Eliminate employees who do
not live the company values, even if their numbers are good!
Difficult, yes, but absolutely necessary.
- Jack Welch
Too many of you work
too hard to make low-performance employees [into] average-performance. It is a
wheel-spinning exercise.
Push low-performers
on to average-performance companies or low-performance companies, and they’ll
do just fine...
Take care of your high-performance
employees. Reward them. Promote them. Pay them well. Give them a lot of perks and
don’t spend all that time trying work plans to get low-performers to be average-performers.
Move them on out early. It’s a contribution.
* Derived from the book "29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch",
by Robert Slater
“Managing Less” means that
his managers have more time to think big thoughts and be more creative.
They gain time to look
beyond their own fiefdoms and think about how they might help grow the business.
Managers
should do less monitoring and less supervising and to give their employees more
latitude.
There
should be far more decision making at the lower levels of any
organization.
Managers
shouldn't interfere with their employees at every turn. Instead, managers
should concentrate on creating a vision for their
employees and should make sure that the vision is always on the mark and is being
acted upon.
Managers
should stop getting in people's way. Stop looking over their shoulders. Stop
bogging them down in bureaucracy.
Managers
should give their employees more freedom.
Let them perform.
· Face Reality.
Business leaders who avoid reality are doomed to failure.
· Act on Reality Quickly! Those who truly face reality can’t stop there. They must adapt
their business strategies to reflect that reality, and they must do so quickly.
·
Turn
Your Business Around. Stick your head in the sand,
says Welch, and you will fail. Face reality, and you may turn a bad situation
into a great one.
It may sound simple, but getting
any organization or group of people to see the world the way it is and not the
way they wish it were or hope it will be is not as easy as it sounds.
We have to permeate every mind in
the organization with an attitude, with an atmosphere that allows people—in
fact, encourages people—to see things as they are, to deal with the way it is
now, not the way they wish it would be.
Managers and employees need to be prepared to reexamine their agenda and to make changes when necessary.
Be ready to rewrite your agenda.
- Jack Welch on Change
Let your employees know that change never ends.
Teach your
colleagues to see change as an opportunity; a challenge that can be met through
hard work and smarts.
- Jack Welch on Change
Accept change.
Business leaders who treat change
like the enemy will fail at their jobs.
Change is the one constant, and
successful business leaders must be able to read the ever-changing business
environment.
- Jack Welch on Change
1- New products
2- A different business environment every day
3- A company within which every employee has to embrace change.
The global business environment is going to change, and change drastically, and we'd better to get a plan, a program together, to deal with the coming decade which will be totally different.
Change is easy, right? The boss
makes a decision, and employees implement it—right?
If you’re in business, you know
that change almost never works like that. In fact, it can be the most difficult
thing in the world.
- Rober Slater in his book "29 Leadership Secrets from Jack
Welch"
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.
- A Lesson from "Jack Welch"
The
optimist believes that this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist is afraid that this might be true!
I
stop at a restaurant with my friend. He complains, “Look at this cup of coffee,
it’s half-empty!” I respond, “Oh, that’s too bad, they gave me one that is
half-full.” We both received the same amount of coffee!
But
I certainly sound like the successful one. Success isn’t limited to objective
findings; one person’s poison is another’s cure. In other words, if an optimist
and a pessimist both win the same prize in a lottery, only the optimist will
appear to be successful!
Optimism helps
you see the advantages in any given situation. Successful people with an
optimistic outlook are better able to identify the silver lining in any given
situation.
Life
is dynamic—always changing. Heraclitus said, “You can’t step in the same
river twice.” The truth is that you can’t even step in the same river once,
because even as you’re step in the river, it is changing.
Appreciating
the dynamics of life and being able to go with the flow provides enormous
advantages to finding new ways of doing things or getting places or creating
opportunities.
Successful
People are flexible and take advantage of new situations.
- Derived from an article titled “8 Habits of Highly Lucky People” by Neil Farber M.D, Ph.D
Successful people are opportunists!
They have the ability to take advantage of novel and
often concealed opportunities when they arise. Many people are blind to
opportunities because they don’t notice them or because they are inflexible and
stuck in their ways.
People
who practice opportunism see opportunities all around them and are able to use
them to their advantage.
Being
an opportunist involves being mindfully aware; being flexible enough to change
your original plans; and being open-minded enough to take advantage of these
new opportunities.
We often think of people who have traveled extensively throughout the world as being “lucky.”
The truth is that most people have had many opportunities to travel at different times in their lives, yet have not taken advantage of them.
They may have felt like they didn't have the money, needed to work, wanted to start their career, or didn’t want to leave family or friends behind.
While there were many possible reasons at the time for not going, years later these reveal themselves as mere excuses for not taking advantage of opportunities.
- Derived from an article titled “8 Habits of Highly Lucky People” by Neil Farber M.D, Ph.D
"Successful"
people make things happen. They are proactive rather than reactive. They make
their future. And when you can take responsibility for your words, actions, and
behavior, you have more control of your destiny.
There
are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen; those who watch things
happen; and those who wonder what just happened.
Yes,
you might get lucky and a $100 bill might fly in through your window while
you’re sitting on the couch, but your luck of finding some money on the street
would improve if you were outside walking in the first place.
A
colleague may appear to be lucky when he tells you that he got eight new
clients today; until you find out that he started working two hours before you
and skipped his lunch break. He also took that online course on “Completing The
Sale” that you thought wouldn’t be worth it.
-
Derived from an article titled “8 Habits of Highly Lucky People” by
Neil Farber M.D, Ph.D
Mindfulness is being non-judgmentally alert and
aware of what’s going on around you as well as inside you—how you’re thinking
and feeling.
Mindfulness occurs on a moment-by-moment basis. When
you are operating mindlessly, on auto-pilot, you are unlikely to observe
opportunities or take advantage of a situation.
One important key to happiness, and a key factor
in becoming successful, is developing a mindfulness mindset.
How will you find that $100 bill stuck in a tiny place,
or know whether to make a successful deal when your counterpart has a clear
predilection for acceptance, if you don’t have a keen sense of situational
awareness?
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Small people
jump at the chance to criticize. They just love finding the flaws in other
people and can’t wait to shine the spotlight on those defects. They dig putting
others down. Of course there are successful people who are mean and nasty. But
they aren’t successful because they are usually alone and miserable.
Successful
People, the truly successful, do just the opposite. They seize every chance they
get to praise others and always work hard to soften any negative review. This
keeps alliances strong, builds teams and motivation. It excites others and
brings out the best in them. Everyone wins.
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than the Rest of Us” by Neal Frankle
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Successful
People continually ask themselves if their actions are bringing them closer to
or further away from their goals!
If they find
that they’re drifting, they correct their course and get back on track.
Less successful people rarely self-assess. As a result they tend to be unproductive!
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than the Rest of Us” by Neal Frankle
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