Noel Tichy Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Noel Tichy

#3. You are What you do When it counts - Armor

John Steakley

#4. Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Herbie Mann

#5. The finality of her leaving allowed me to reclaim the places that had once been ours as mine, to say good-bye to my childhood parks and hiking trails rather than grasping for lost moments with a lost girl who refused to be found.

Robyn Schneider

#6. I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine.

John Banville

#7. Stand firm in faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. 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

#9. Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like ... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.

Noel Tichy

#10. Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

Robert Crais

#11. 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

#12. Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater.

R. Alan Woods

#13. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

Jo Nesbo

#15. I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.

Alice Englert

#16. With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.

Peter Gabriel

#17. 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

#18. In the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

Patricia Ryan

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Shall I gag you, or are you capable of being silent without my assistance?

Sarah J. Maas

#23. Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

Robert Holden