Noel Tichy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
-- Noel Tichy

#Change #People #Imagination
Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.
-- Noel Tichy

#Winning #Organization #Leader
Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.
-- Noel Tichy

#Ideas #People #Leader
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.
-- Noel Tichy

#Responsibility #Fate #Perspective
Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.
-- Noel Tichy

#Self #Leader #Use
There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?
-- Noel Tichy

#Teaching #Thinking #Leader
There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.
-- Noel Tichy

#People #Three #Needs
Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.
-- Noel Tichy

#Cat #Thinking #Self

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Even God cannot change the past.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

Noel Tichy famous quotes

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