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he goal. And people are getting more and more fortable with the idea that you get the best out of people not by fighting budgets, which are all about minimal numbers, but by getting people to do the best they can, and measuring their progress toward it against last year, against what petitors are doing. We are in the process of enriching our anization through the stretch concept. Operating margins are 50 percent higher than they were for the first one hundred and eighty years of our pany, and in a tougher global environment. Jack Welch39。s Vision for the Millennium People always overestimate how plex business is. This isn39。t rocket science Dreams Are Exciting。 Decimal Points Aren39。t Stretch is a concept that would have produced smirks, if not laughter, in the GE of three or four years ago, because it essentially means using dreams to set business targets with no real idea of how to get there. If you do know how to get there it39。s not a stretch target. We certainly didn39。t have a clue how we were going to get to ten inventory turns when we set that target. But we39。re getting there, and as soon as we bee sure we can do it, it39。s time for another stretch.