Dr. Noel M. Tichy Monday, January 17, 2011

Dr. Noel M. Tichy Professor of Management & Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, 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 conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia and Brazil. In 2003 he launched the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in Partnership with General Electric, Procter & Gamble and 3M, to create a national model partnership for opportunities between business and society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles. He recently has partnered with the Boys and Girls Clubs of American to build a world class capability for leadership development, and is currently partnered with two charter schools in Texas, Uplift Education & IDEA, to develop their leadership capacity. Professor Tichy also conducts the LEADERSHIP JUDGMENT PROGRAM executive workshop at the University of Michigan His groundbreaking books include: • JUDGMENT: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls o (with Warren Bennis) • THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE: How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity • THE CYCLE OF LEADERSHIP: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win • THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level Named a top 10 business book author by BusinessWeek. He is co-author of EVERY BUSINESS IS A GROWTH BUSINESS (with Ram Charan) 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. Regarded as a staple of management literacy as noted by his rating as one of the “Top 10 Management Gurus” by BUSINESSWEEK. Tichy 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. Join Noel Tichy on today's show for an update and a year long perspective on leadership Judgement – the good bad and the ugly.