"...if you've got to pick a job in business, this is the best job God ever created. Every day is a whole new event."
When Welch said that "Every day is a whole new event," it was powerful to listen to for me. No wonder he was such a ferocious competitor and so tough to keep up with.
If we come to work every day believing, as great managers do, that they've got the best job in the world and every day is a new day, it's an invigorating motivator. We get a spring in our step and feel like we're on top of the world.
That type of mentality and attitude is conducive to creativity, spontaneity and innovation; a huge strength that General Electric (GE) had under Welch.
When something is alive, new and organic to you ... it's always moving and going forward; always finding and looking for something around the next corner.
Living businesses and jobs, as Welch looked at it, are extremely difficult to compete with because other companies aren't sure where they're going to be the next day, month or year. A moving target is much harder to hit than a stationary one.
When we see our jobs that way, and instill that into our people, they take on those same characteristics and start to feel and respond in the same way.
When every day is a new creation and we look in wonder at what might happen, it does something that is difficult to measure and almost impossible to reproduce. Any business leader that has this and passes it on to their people as Welch did, will find themselves in a continuous competitive advantage over those that don't.
Other Jack Welch Resources:
Jack Welch's advice to MIT Sloan students
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