Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, is releasing his second book “Winning.” Newsweek, April 04, 2005, ran an article about him and an excert from the book.

The article is on leadership. He gave eight insights on leadership and working with people.

1) Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach and build self-confidence. Make sure that the teams are right - right people in the right positions. Continue to coach your people to improve performance. To build self-confidence, use encouragement, care and recognition.

2) Leaders make sure poeple not only see the vision, they live and breathe it. Constantly communicate the vision so that it will filter down.

3) Leaders get into everyone’s skin, exuding positve energy and optimism.

4) Leaders establish trust with candor, transparency and credit. Deliever the hard news and don’t steal credit for an idea that is not yours.

5) Leaders have the courage to make unpopular dicsions and gut calls. Trust yourself when something does not feel right even though everything on paper seems to be right.

6) Leaders probe and push with a curiosity that borders on skepticism, making sure their questions are answered with action. Questions like “What if?”, “Why not?” and “How come?” should be use often when speaking about decisions or changes.

7) Leaders inspire risk taking and learning by setting the example.

8) Leaders celebrate.