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The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win Paperback – August 10, 2004

by Noel M. Tichy (Author)
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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 ⳥achable points of view,⟳pend 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, ⍯ 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

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Noel M. Tichy is a professor at the University of Michigan Business School, director of the school's Global Leadership Partnership, and former head of GE's Crotonville Leadership Development Center. He is the author of the best seller Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (with Stratford Sherman).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0066620570
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Business; Reprint edition (August 10, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780066620572
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 1.05 x 8 inches
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I bought this for my husband who needed it for a leadership seminar at work. He had no complaints.
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Nicole Martin
4.0 out of 5 stars Tichy expands upon the widely accepted phenomenon of the “learning ...
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Tichy expands upon the widely accepted phenomenon of the “learning organization” by suggesting that teaching is key to today’s winning organizations. He explains that leader-initiated and maintained teaching with employees at all levels is critical to a “smarter, faster, bigger” organization. In today’s knowledge economy, the ability to be the most informed and adaptable company is crucial for success. Tichy argues that all employees of a company regardless of rank have to work together and share what they know if they are to have a competitive advantage. By sharing, all employees know what it takes for the company to succeed.
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Philip C. Garrod
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Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2002
I was somewhat disappointed in this book despite its endorsement by one of my business school classmates. Professor Tichy discusses already well known principles of leadership within the context of what is promoted as a "new" approach. Only a few individuals and companies are profiled and are used repeatedly throughout the book. The examples cited fit awkwardly into the message that is being presented. The title of the book attributes greatness to the individuals profiled based on only one attribute--a belief in teaching and learning. This seems such a narrow focus on which to base such accolades.
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For the Leader and Entrepreneur in me ... I love this book!
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Fran or Teresa Trascritti
3.0 out of 5 stars Misses the mark
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2006
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Tichy described the "interactive teaching/learning process" as a form of "synergy" whereby "1+1=3" (10). Synergy is defined as the "process of mutual exploration and exchange during which both the teacher and the learner become smarter" (10). Though he uses this term to illustrate the teaching and learning process, he esteemed the four "E's" when choosing potential leaders. The criteria included the following: "Energy" (coping ability for change), "Energize" (ability to excite/inspire), "Edge" (making tough calls), and "Execute" (always delivering, never disappointing) (129). To better support his argument for interactive synergy, Tichy should have included another "E" category-- Educate (the ability to teach, mentor, and guide). Tichy, himself, framed teaching as "opening people's eyes and minds...teaching new ways to see the world and pointing them to new goals...teaching them to teach their own knowledge and teach others" (74). His statement was void of an element in interactive/circulatory teaching.

Tichy referred to Roger Enrico's process of teaching ten "rising leaders" for a consecutive number of long hour days (11)." After a period of teaching, Enrico would send his students home to "work on projects" and brought them back for "follow-up sessions" (11). This illustration was a poor choice on Tichy's part because it has nothing to do with "synergy" and does not appear to align with his definition of a "teaching organization." Not only does Tichy use irrelevant examples and definitions, but he also seemed unclear about the process of the "Virtuous Teaching Cycle." In his introductory statement, Tichy said, "Virtuous Teaching Cycles are dynamic, interactive processes in which everyone teaches, everyone learns and everyone gets smarter, everyday" (xxiv). Yet his next statement about the leadership process does not incorporate this philosophy: "No institution can be great unless it has a great leader at the top who develops leaders at all levels of the organization" (xxiv).

People who described themselves as "always paranoid" or "never let anyone best him" would seem to be less likely to participate in an interactive process of teaching as depicted by Tichy. The book falls short in conveying a true "interactive teaching process." Not only were there no tangible examples of companies using this approach, but also the main ideas of "greatness" and "winning" represent selfish gain and have nothing to do with having a "teachable point of view." The truth is that without Christ as the teacher leading by example, no one can possibly participate in a process that separates one's pride and power for the humbling experience of learning in an interactive process with a subordinate. Jesus said it clearly: "You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him" (John 13:13-16 NKJV).
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On time, same sharp they described it as, no wear!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Print looks like printer ran out of ink.
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2017
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The review has nothing to do with the content at all. It has everything to do with the worst quality printing job I have ever seen in a book. The text is so light and inconsistent the book will be hard to read. HarperCollins Publishing needs better quality control of their products.
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Great resource for leaders and HR professionals.
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