"Noel Tichy’s concept of building ’virtuous teaching cycles’ gives today’s leaders a path to build organizations fast enough to benefit from today’s unprecedented rate of change."

--Brad Anderson, vice chairman and CEO, Best Buy

"I am gung ho about this book because it cracks the code on how leaders build winning organizations."

--Ken Blanchard, coauthor, Leadership and the One Minute Manager

In The Leadership Engine, Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization, and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders. Now, in The Cycle of Leadership, Tichy takes the theme further, showing how great companies and leaders hone their business knowledge into "teachable points of view," and pass this knowledge to others in the organization. In turn, these leaders learn from the employees they are teaching.

Using examples of this "virtuous teaching cycle" from GE, Best Buy, Genentech, Southwest Airlines and many others, Professor Tichy presents and analyzes leadership principles in action and shows how leaders can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and, consequently, better-performing companies.

Acknowledgments

Foreword to the Paperback Edition

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Introduction

One The New DNA of Winning: A Virtuous Teaching Cycle

Two Two Roads to Winning: Hypertransformation and Hypergrowth

Three Building the Teaching Organization: Knowledge Creation Through the Virtuous Teaching Cycle

Four You Must Start with a Teachable Point of View

Five How to Develop aTeachable Point of View

Six The Paradox of Power: Overcoming Resistance on the Top Team

Seven Building the Leader/Teacher Pipeline: Developing Leaders for the Future

Eight Scaling the Teaching Organization: Get Everyone in the Game

Nine Creating Virtuous Teaching Cycles: Operating Mechanisms

Ten Trilogy University: Boot Camp and Knowledge Generation

Eleven Digitizing the Teaching Organization

Twelve Global Citizenship: A World of Opportunities

Conclusion

Handbook

Notes

Sources

Index