Have you ever heard of Jack Welch? Daily Mail remarked Jack “He has bestridden American-and world-industry like a colossus for the past 40 years”. Jack joined in GE right after he graduated from his doctor degree in chemical engineering. He worked as the CEO of General Electric (GE) for around 20 years from 80s to 2001. His greatest achievement accounted for turning GE into the most valuable company in the world, led GE become one of the world pioneer companies that succeed in intense global competition and set up a company culture with fast respond to market changing, value people than strategy and creating a boundless work environment.
I was always wondering what makes Jack so successful in his career? He is smart, quick, with an incisive mind, tough and absolute candor. Also he is a workaholic. Other than that, I personally more appreciate his integrity, self-confident and dare to try new things.
Integrity to me is the fundamental element among them three. Any people who are at work, in a friendship or a relationship, integrity is the most important thing. It can either help people create a strong positive image or destroy their own images in front of others. Integrity is in favor of trust which is a premier factor to be considered when building a relationship. Based on trust, people can develop further relationship in every business. A person considered with low integrity might have the trouble of being trusted consequently have little possibility to be successful in every aspect.
I believe self-confident is as important as integrity in one’s success. I think it might be formed along the years people grow up or through their career experiences. It is concerned what you have achieved that enhance someone’s self-confident, what you have done wrong may decrease someone’s self-confident. Luckily in GE, Jack encouraged people to do things in the way they feel comfortable and gave people enough space to demonstrate their abilities. When people succeed in doing something that might beyond their own expectation, this must extremely help people build their self-confidents. Besides, Jack as the top manager was always trying to celebrate people’s good work which also helps. A question arises, what if people make mistakes? At this moment, self-confident recovery is essential. Learn from mistakes, develop self- confident and always believe yourself, you can do it.
The last thing I was inspired by the story is everyone should dare to try new things. The biggest concern of not trying new things must be scared of failure. Especially in a big company with huge fund investment, try new things is taking a big risk, lose money or lose career in worst case. At this moment, it is very much depending on people’s judgment on future demands. Therefore it is more important for people to update themselves with latest information from market and continuously learn new things as well to be able to have a high capability to make a “risky” decision of trying new things. In short, the more you catch up with the new things, the less risk you are taking and the more benefit you can gain from it.
Probably not everyone can be as successful as people wishes, but the more you try the more you get. I believe it.
