Sunday, October 15, 2006

Welch's advice to MIT students

GE icon dishes out blunt, politically incorrect advice to MBA students...

"Don't fall in love with your workers," a business instructor tells a student who's launching a small startup company. "If you've got 16 employees, at least two are turkeys."

It's hardly the only piece of blunt, politically incorrect advice the charismatic teacher dishes out in a windowless basement classroom filled with 30 MBA candidates, many of them hoping to eventually become CEOs. Wearing a blue blazer and checked shirt, the baldheaded instructor stands in front of a lecture table, rather than behind, through most of the 90-minute session, sharing his management ideas with a preacher's fervor.

If it sounds like the instructor is copping an I've-seen-it-all attitude, it's because he has reason to. He's Jack Welch."

Read on...

Here are some of his Classroom Quotes...

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