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One of my favorite interviews of all time was with the great now late Jack Welch.

Jack grew GE's market value from $ billion in 1981 to 410 billion,

a growth value of over 4,000 percent when he retired 20 years later. But all of that might not

have been if he hadn't had an emotionally intelligent leader when he was still an up-and-comer.

In 1963, when Welch was still in his mid-20s,

he was the manufacturing head of a pilot plant producing a new plastic. After only working a short

time at GE after earning his Ph.D., he was sitting at his office across from the plant,

the one he was responsible for, when he heard a huge explosion.

When he looked out his window, he saw massive pillows of smoke.

The roof was blown completely off and destroyed, and there was shattered glass everywhere.

Incredibly, nobody was hurt.

He was called to New York to meet with his boss. He said that drive was the longest

ride of his career. Welch was preparing himself mentally for the worst. He thought for sure that he

was going to be fired. But instead of being raked over the coals, Welch said his boss calmly asked him

what had happened. And he asked him if he

knew how to fix it. Here's how Welch articulated what happened. He said, he took the Socratic

method with me and did an incredible job of engaging me in learning about what I had done wrong

in the process. He said, I learned something very valuable that day.

I learned to never kick anybody when they're down.

It is not if a mistake will be made.

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