The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
Interpretation
Unlocking human creativity leads to limitless possibilities when we value each individual's contribution.
This quote by Jack Welch emphasizes the boundless potential of human creativity and the importance of recognizing that every individual has something valuable to offer. By tapping into this innate creativity and fostering an environment that encourages belief in oneself, we can achieve remarkable outcomes beyond mere efficiency.
In practice
In a team meeting when discussing innovative ideas.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.
The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
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