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Winning -- Jack Welch

I Just finished one more book, "Winning" written by Jack Welch. For those who don't know Jack welch was the CEO of GE from 1981 to 2001, the market capitalization of GE raised from $14 Billion to $410 billion during his tenure. He adopted Six Sigma from Motorola and famous for his Appraisal policy. He suggests corporates to fire the bottom 10% and give more benefits to top 20%. Below are some of the quotes from his book Winning... ==================================================================================== What is mission ? What is Value ? What difference the difference makes ? Mission: What do you call Winning? Values: How you want to Win ? You have a choice, global recession can be treated with either Layoff's or Innovations. Just because you are the boss, doesn't mean you are the source of the knowledge. HIRING Hiring good people is hard, hiring great people is brutally hard. Rules of Hiring Integrity: Genuine of the candidate Intelligence: Maturity: co

Columbus Confused ...

It was 1492, Columbus was in search of India, which is rich of gold, pearls and spices. He started travelling west till he reaches Asia. After a long journey than expected he reached America and thought it was India. He read in history books that Indians are wheatish in color. But in the place he landed (America) all the people are red in color. So he called them Red Indians. That's history. Lets take a funny / Imaginary story , what happens if Columbus comes to America again. Its 2009, Columbus travelled all the way and reached an Island. This time he don't want to jump on to conclusion like earlier, he docked his ship and started roaming on the roads. He saw people in all colors, he recollected , if the people are in red it must be Native Americans. But he was not able to find a single native American. Though his sixth sense told it was the same America he discovered centuries back, he just want to confirm it. He thought of checking-in a hotel. He went near by "Motel 6&q

Horizons

"Change is calling where are you", this is the quote of the time for me. After spending one and half year in Chicago (Central America) and closely one and half year in Hartford (East Coast), now its time to visit Phoenix (West Coast). So the change is asking me to go to west coast of America from first week of Nov. Actually i completed visiting almost all the places in East and Central part of America. I never got a chance to visit the west coast. So lets see whats in store there. In my 25 years stay in India, I went out of state only twice. I haven't travelled more than 500 KM's any time. Now each year I am moving by at least 1500 KM's. Now the distance between the current place and new place is nearly 4000 KM's. Two things I learned in US are travelling and investing time in myself. Lets give a look at the places I visited so far in US 1. New york, New Jersey - two times 2. Niagara 3. St.Louis 4. Chicago - stayed here for one and half year 5. Washington DC -