About the book

Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
By Noel M. Tichy and
Warren G. Bennis

A leader’s judgment can make or break the organization. The best leaders make a high percentage of good calls (whom to hire, what strategy to implement, or how to handle a crisis) at timew ehn it counts the most.

But przcticing good judgment isn’t easy because the concept is murky. Is judgment common sense? Gut intict? Luck?

Tichy and Bennis contend that judgment is none of these things. Instead it’s a three-part process:

• Preparing: Framing the issue that will demand a judgment call, ensuring that your team members understand why the decision is important, and tapping ideas from stakeholders
• Making the call: Arriving at your decioin and explaining it
• Executing: Carrying out your decision while learning and adjusting along the way

Each phase is curical, and each offers “redo loops”- opportunities to correct missteps. By mastering the judgment process, you make decision that secure widespread commitment to results.

Praise

“This is an instant classic that will be read and consulted by leaders--and those who seek to become leaders--for years to come.”
- Richard D. Parsons, Chairman & CEO Time Warner.

“Great calls deserve a comparable book to explain them, and now we have one. Read, learn, enjoy.”
-George P. Schultz, former United Sates secretary of state

“The leadership judgment framework is a tool leaders can use to develop the ability in their executive teams. This book can benefit anyone who is in or aspires to be in a leadership role.”
-Dieter Zetsche, president and CEO DaimlerChrysler

“Judgment, from two of the most respected thought leaders of our times is a blueprint, a gift to leaders of the future.”
-Frances Hesselbein, chairman, Leader to Leader Institute and founding president, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management

Tichy and Bennis write with clarity and good sense. You can hang your hat on the authors’ understanding of good judgment and its role in effective leadership.”
-Jeff Kindler, CEO Pfizer

"Judgment is a singular achievement. Its just the right blend of management wisdom and leadership action.”
Howard Schultz, founder and chairman of Starbucks

“Judgment is an enjoyable read illuminating key judgments made by some of America’s foremost business leaders.”
- David W. Heleniak, vice chairman Morgan Stanley

“This is as close to a definitive book on leadership as one can pray for.”
-Amitai Etzioni, author of My Brother’s Keeper

"I am a raving fan of both Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis. In this important book they give a crash course on judgment, revealing the tools great leaders use to make the right calls at the right time."
-Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level

“[It] is about how leaders put the energy into vision and strategy...Absorbing.”
-Edward A. Snyder, dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Economics University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

“If you were to read only one book this year on leadership, this would be it.”
-Vijay Govindarajan, Earl C. Daum 1924 professor of International Business Tuck School at Dartmouth