Great video interview with Jack Welch available here on his business philosophy and new book, "Winning". I read his last book "Jack: Straight From the Gut" and there is a lot in there that makes sense for careers and recruiting. In fact if you watch the video interview you will see how passionate Jack is about Human Resources and how much of a difference he feels they make in business.
One of the reasons I recommend reading Jack's business philosophy is that for many people who aren't in management roles in their careers the ideas of "big business" seem to be pretty far from where your own life maybe, but in Jack Welch's case this is not true. The ideas he gives can be applied directly to your work and business in a day to day fashion as the world is right now.
In my mind the most influential of Jack's words for those of you in business and trying to develop your career in these extremely trying times is to FACE REALITY. And he really means reality. In his opinion if people aren't performing in their positions then they should be fired and given a chance to go perform somewhere else. Furthermore he also believes there is no place in business for people who don't want to win. Satisfied paying customers are the only people capable of providing you with job security in his opinion.
My take on this is that Jack is not only right he is also extremely kind in sharing this knowledge. There are too many groups for whom it is easy not to share the reality of the global workplace where no government intervention is truly capable of stopping the reality of outsourcing and competitive abilities of other countries. Without facing this reality I truly think career setbacks can be extremely painful for many people. However, armed with this reality check it isn't hard to go into work tomorrow and work out whether or not you have any true job security.
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