The cycle of leadership: how great leaders teach their companies to win

In The Leadership Engine, Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization, and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders. In this new book, he takes the theme further, showing how great companies and their leaders develop their business knowledge into «teachable points of view,» spend a great portion of their time giving their learnings to others, sharing best practices, and how they in turn learn and receive business ideas/knowledge from the employees they are teaching.

Calling this exchange a virtuous teaching cycle, Professor Tichy shows how business builders from Jack Welch at GE to Joe Liemandt at Trilogy create organizations that foster this knowledge exchange and how their efforts result in smarter, more agile companies, and winning results. Some of these ideas were showcased in Tichy’s recent Harvard Business Review article entitled, «No Ordinary Boot Camp.»

Using examples from GE, Ford, Dell, Southwest Airlines and many others, Tichy presents and analyzes these principles in action and shows how managers can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and, consequently, better-performing companies

Publishers Weekly

In today’s economy, it seems CEOs left and right are falling from grace; truly admirable CEOs are becoming scarce. University of Michigan Business School professor Noel M. Tichy (The Leadership Engine) and writer Nancy Cardwell showcase a few of this rare breed’s strategies in The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win. Successful organizations foster «knowledge exchange,» says Tichy, and «they are built around virtuous teaching cycles» and «create attributes needed in the knowledge economy.» He effectively integrates examples from GE, Ford, Dell, Southwest Airlines, 3M, Home Depot and other companies to illustrate how managers can convert their own businesses into ones that foster collective learning. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.