Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Noel Tichy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Noel Tichy.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Noel Tichy

Noel M. Tichy is an American management consultant, author and educator. He has co-authored, edited or contributed to over 30 books. While teaching at the MBA program at the University of Michigan, Tichy along with Jim Danko and Paul Danos, first instituted " the defining attribute" of the program: Multidisciplinary Action Projects in which students work on an actual corporate business issue. In 2009, the Washington Post named Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will which he co-authored with Stratford Sherman as one of the Top 10 leadership books. As the director of global development at GE's Crotonville, from 1985–1987 he instituted the action learning programs which helped make it "one of the premiere corporate learning centers in the world."

There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?
Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.
Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.
Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations. — © Noel Tichy
Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.
Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.
Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.
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