The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
This invaluable book by Noel M. Tichy, the Michigan Business School professor who formerly ran GEﾽs legendary Crotonville Leadership Center, will teach managers to create corporate cultures based on values, ideas, and a sustained commitment to learning. Building on concepts he first introduced in the The Leadership Engine, Tichy argues that, in the new information-based economy, companies will succeed only if they become ﾽteaching organizationsﾽ dedicated to generating ideas, focusing the attention of their employees upon those ideas, and ultimately transforming all this intellectual energy into real-world products and services. Although Tichy's goals may sound lofty, his book is actually an accessible and practical guide that will be greatly appreciated by both aspiring leaders and veteran executives.
There are two core concepts that you'll want to focus on when reading The Cycle of Leadership. The first is Tichy's definition of a ﾽvirtuous teaching cycleﾽ: Unlike a vicious circle, in which failures build upon each other, a virtuous teaching cycle is the positive process that occurs when people at all levels are mutually engaged in helping their colleagues learn, grow, and achieve. Tichy's second core concept concerns the importance of having a "teachable point of view" (TPOV). If you've got a TPOV, then, in essence, you have something worthy -- a set of values, a sense of energy -- to share with your fellow workers. Rich with insight and a genuine passion for learning, this is a book that will truly make a difference in the lives of its readers. Bill Camarda
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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. Now, in The Cycle of Leadership, Tichy takes the theme further, showing how great companies and leaders hone their business knowledge into "teachable points of view," and pass this knowledge to others in the organization. In turn, these leaders learn from the employees they are teaching. Using examples of this "virtuous teaching cycle" from GE, Best Buy, Genentech, Southwest Airlines and many others, Professor Tichy presents and analyzes leadership principles in action and shows how leaders can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and, consequently, better-performing companies.
SYNOPSIS
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
FROM THE CRITICS
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.
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