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.Collection: Change
Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Self
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.Collection: Responsibility
There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?Collection: Teaching
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Cat