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Larry Bossidy Quotes

born 1935

Lawrence Arthur "Larry" Bossidy (born March 5, 1935) is an American author and retired businessman. He served as CEO of AlliedSignal (later Honeywell) in the 1990s, prior to which he spent more than 30 years rising through executive positions at General Electric.

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I think you don’t change a culture. I think you coach people to win. Basically, people want to be successful. They want to go home at night and feel that they’ve made a contribution.

The leader’s job is to help everyone see that the platform is burning, whether the flames are apparent or not. The process of change begins when people decide to take the flames seriously and manage by fact, and that means a brutal understanding of reality.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Larry Bossidy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.