Everything That`s Interesting is New

Everything That 's Interesting is New

The greatest influence in my life has been Jack Welch , the CEO of General Electric --GE . His groundbreaking ideals on leadership and change management have been not only been accepted as the Bible of human resource development , but also help person to emerge as a completely changed person . He has authored several books which are best sellers for a considerable period of time like Straight from the Gut . His campaigning of Six Sigma quality and his distinctive philosophy and an operating system which relies on a

sharing of ideas , a deep people-centric focus , and an casual give-and-take style . It was Jack Welch 's mother who helped him shape his life and the high and lows which exemplified his career . Beginning his illustrious career at GE during 1960 as an Engineer drawing 10 ,500 , Jack understood the getting out of the ordinary when his first salary hike was same as others . He remained out of the corporate bureaucracy while managing 2 billion conglomerate of GE business out of Hilton in Pittsfield (Straight From the Gut

It is very crucial that one should embrace change and not fear it since change occurs at a very faster rate than one can react to it . A lot of people believe that status quo is the best strategy since it is safest Jack Welch , the tomorrow driven leader announced that it was foolishness to fear change . He loved change , maintaining that change keeps everyone alert and drives everybody to work . Change is a large part of the truth of the any environment which is new competitors , new products . Ignoring that reality will make a person to doom . In his capacity as the CEO , not fearing change , Welch constantly reinvented GE . From Welch 's teaching one learns that one has to constantly evolve through various tools and methods while keeping the goal same which is non-stop growth . He always told his employees to begin each day as it were your first day on the job and contribute whatever changes are needed in to improve things . It has been a good learning thing that one has to reexamine one 's agenda constantly and rewrite it is there is any need for it . This keeps one from again getting back to the old habits . In the workplace sometimes it is important to take decision yourselves . In case one is confident that he is right regarding something , one should urge change upon his boss (Welch , Jack Slater , 37

It is from Jack Welch I learnt that one is never too old to learn something new or to appreciate the fact that no one person holds all the answers to everything . Always there exists a better path . For instance we can imagine enjoying a great dinner party with nine intelligent guests each having excellence in his chosen field . One can imagine that how better everybody at the dinner would be , when a better way to communicate the best ideas into every guest at...