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The Leadership Engine
by Noel M. Tichy
with Eli Cohen

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Noel Tichy has observed that winning corporations, without exception, are distinguished by their ability to grow leadership at every level, an ability that ultimately creates a pool of formidable home-grown talent that can be drawn on whenever top management jobs need to be filled. Based on extensive consultations with such leading companies as PepsiCo, Royal Dutch/Shell and Ford Motor Company, The Leadership Engine helps businesses cultivate this ability by showing how to foster a corporate atmosphere that nurtures leadership and initiative. Tichy explains that top leaders must develop a teachable point of view on business ideas and values, and they must have a personal vision that can be codified, embodied as a story and communicated throughout the organization.

There's a reason why blue-chip companies from around the world such as General Motors, Proctor & Gamble, Chase Manhattan, Sony and Honda pay $35,000 dollars per participant to have their executives attend Noel Tichy's famed Global Leadership Program: He delivers phenomenal results. In The Leadership Engine, he comes through once again, presenting a dynamic and groundbreaking work for all companies who want to develop the depth of talent they need to successfully compete at the highest levels.

Praise

"Tackles the essence of leadership through an intriguing combination of stories and structure. Holds a mirror at the reader in terms of his or her leadership capabilities. A great read."
- Jorma Ollila, President and CEO, Nokia

"This is Noel Tichy's summa. His text models the leaders he profiles: brilliant, clear on values, and gutsy as hell. The research base is awesome. The stories are great. The message is spot on. The path to action is clear."
- Tom Peters, Tom Peters Group

"Insightful, entertaining and practical; THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE provides a blueprint for more effective organizations."
- Thomas J. Tierney, Worldwide Managing Director, Bain & Company

"The zealous commitment of leaders as teachers within organizations is crucial for significant and sustained performance improvement. Tichy provides a compelling, energizing but practical guide on this key issue."
- Jacques A. Nasser, President, Ford Automotive Operations

"Periodically all successful organizations have to change. Once a crisis has occurred, any organization will change, but waiting for a crisis is not often the route to success. How do large organizations change without a crisis? Noel Tichy correctly finds the answer in leadership - a leadership that permeates an organization at all levels."
- Lester Thurow, author of The Future of Capitalism

"THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE is a remarkable resource for all leaders dispersed throughout the enterprise. It is an important book for leaders everywhere who would teach, learn, and seek the OedgeO that makes the difference."
- Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO, The Drucker Foundation

"Lots of very useful information about how to develop senior executives who are transformational leaders...This is an invaluable guide for all who aspire to leadership roles in corporations."
- Prof. Ed Lawler, Marshall School of Bus., author of From the Ground Up

"It is no secret that the successful execution of any change strategy rests largely on the shoulders of those who lead. In THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE Noel Tichy gives us an inside look at the processes used to expand that leadership universe."
- Leonard A. Schlesinger, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

"THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE is more than just a good read - it is actually useful to leaders at all levels in organizations of all types."
- Prof. Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University

"As Noel Tichy points out in this groundbreaking book, being an effective leader in business today requires more than personal charm, telegenic charisma, or a healthy ego."
- Bill Trahant, Partner-in-Charge, International Center of Excellence for Change Mgmt., Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.