Global Business Partnership Working Papers Series

From forthcoming book: CEO SUCCESSION: 2020
by Noel Tichy (Penguin, NY)

This paper makes the case for judgment as the genome of CEO leadership.  The selection of a new CEO is a bet on a leader who can make great people, strategy and crisis judgments. In this working paper, we present a framework for analyzing the leader's past judgment performance for use as a guide to project future judgment capability.  Boards of Directors need to explicitly review CEO candidates past judgments, carefully discuss future judgment dilemmas CEO candidates may face, and assess how well their experiences have prepared them.  The paper also lays out how to build a leadership pipeline that both assesses and develops good leadership judgment.  Click here to view the paper.

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• Leadership Judgment: Without It Nothing Else Matters
  by Noel Tichy and Chris DeRose
  Published in Leader to Leader, Spring 2008

  Good judgment is one of those ineffable qualities that everyone seeks yet is remarkably difficult to define. It goes without saying that you wouldn’t hire someone you thought had bad judgment, yet ask company CEOs or nonprofit leaders to define good judgment and the question usually gives them pause.

• How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
  by Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis
  Published in BusinessWeek, November 19, 2007

  Excellent decisions don’t often happen by accident. In the book excerpted here, the authors analyze successful executives’ processes.

• Making the Tough Call
  by Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis.
  Published in Inc. Magazine, November 2007.

  Making the tough call when their values are on the line, great leaders know how to get their company where it needs to go.

• Making Judgment Calls
  by Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis
  Published in Harvard Business Review, October 2007

  Tichy and Bennis offer guidelines for managing each phase of the judgment process.

• How Leaders Develop Leaders
  by Eli Cohen and Noel Tichy
  Published in Training & Development, May 1997

  Successful leaders must develop other leaders by sharing their teachable points of view and compelling stories that link their own leadership experience with organizational goals.
   

• Launching Cycles of Leadership
  by Noel Tichy and Chris DeRose
  Published in Optimize, August 2002

  Yes, great leaders are born with a certain je ne sais quoi. Nevertheless, great companies define that elusive mix of vision and power, recombining the elements into a repeatable formula, and sharing it with new generations of leaders. The building blocks of leadership are ideas, values, energy and edge. But it's those leaders who share their blocks with others who build the greatest towers.

• Thought Leader Interview with Noel M. Tichy
  by Randall Rothenberg
  Published in Strategy+Business, Spring 2003

• Roger Enrico's Master Class
  by Noel M. Tichy & Chris DeRose
  Published in Fortune, November 1995

  Executives chosen for the ultimate Pepsi Challenge spend three months learning how to really grow the business.

• Listen and Learn
  by Shawn Zeller, published in Government Executive, October 1, 2004

  The Special Forces' transformation into a teaching  organization, Tichy says, has advanced the Rangers  from  a purely warfighting function to an all-purpose  nation-building force. In countries such as Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, Special Forces have had to fight  the enemy and also work with communities to rebuild  schools, infrastructure and government.

• "Business 2.0 Guide to Gurus"
  by Anne Schukat, published in BusinessWeek, October 2002
  

  Seeking out thinkers who bring fresh ideas but whose advice seems grounded and practical - suited to an era focused on ROI, not IPOs.  A few are, well, not exactly household names, but at least well known in the nation's executive suites and boardrooms.  Among them are Noel Tichy and CK Prahalad, University of Michigan Business School Professors whose books have long been regarded as staples of management literary. 
   

• "GE's Crotonville: A Staging Ground for Corporate Revolution"
  by Noel Tichy, published in The Academy of Management Executive, 1989, Vol. III, No. 2, pp. 99-106.
   
• "The Management Development Institute at Crotonville"
  GE's Crotonville Brochure
   
• "Globalizing Management Chapter 2"
  by Noel Tichy, Michael Brimm, Ram Charan and
  Hirotaka Takeuchi, 1992
   
• "Globalizing Management Chapter 11"
  by Noel Tichy, 1992