Noel M. Tichy
Dr. Noel M. Tichy is a Professor of Management & Organizations at the
Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he is the
director of the Global Business Partnership, which for over a decade ran
the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese,
European and North American companies who partnered to develop senior
executives and conduct action research on globalization in China, India,
Russia and Brazil. He is now partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of
America to build a world class capability for leadership development.
Professor Tichy also conducts the LEADERSHIP JUDGMENT PROGRAM executive
workshop at the University of Michigan. Most recently, he led the
launch of the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in partnership
with General Electric, Procter & Gamble and 3M, designed to create a
national model for partnership opportunities between business and
society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles.
In the mid 1980s, Dr. Tichy was head of GE’s Leadership Center, the
fabled Crotonville, where he led the transformation to action learning
at GE. Between 1985 – 1987, Dr. Tichy was Manager of Management
Education for General Electric where he directed its worldwide
development efforts at Crotonville. Prior to joining the Michigan
faculty, he served for nine years on the Columbia University Business
School faculty.
Professor Tichy is the author of numerous books and articles. His
most recent book is JUDGMENT:
How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls (Portfolio 2007,
with Warren Bennis). He also authored
THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE: How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity
(Jossey-Bass 2003, with Andrew McGill),
THE CYCLE OF LEADERSHIP: How Great
Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win (Harper-Collins
2002, with Nancy Cardwell) and
THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every
Level (with Eli Cohen), named one of the top 10 business
books in 1997 by BusinessWeek. He is co-author of
EVERY BUSINESS IS A GROWTH BUSINESS
(with Ram Charan), published October 1998 (Random
House). In addition, Tichy is also the co-author of
CONTROL YOUR DESTINY OR SOMEONE ELSE
WILL: How Jack Welch is Making General Electric the World’s Most
Competitive Company (with Stratford Sherman). Tichy has
long been regarded as a staple of management literacy as noted by his
rating as one of the “Top 10 Management Gurus” by BUSINESSWEEK and
BUSINESS 2.0. He has served on the editorial boards of the
Academy of Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of
Business Research, and Journal of Business Strategy and was the founding
editor and chief of HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.
Noel Tichy consults widely in both the private and public sectors. He is
a senior partner in Action Learning Associates. His clients have
included: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, Nomura
Securities, 3M, Daimler-Benz and Royal Dutch Shell.
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