John Francis "Jack" Welch Jr. (1935-2020) was an American engineer, writer, and business executive. He was the chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001, and his tenure there has been both widely lauded and strongly criticized.
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
