The cycle of leadership

by Noel M Tichy

Good leaders teach -- great leaders learn. Don't wait to learn. Download and begin reading The Cycle of Leadership now.Today's radically transformed knowledge economy requires winning companies to be fast -- and smart. In his new book, best-selling management author Noel Tichy shows that the smartest, fastest, and most successful organizations are explicitly designed to encourage the creation and sharing of knowledge.These companies foster the continual generation and sharing of valuable information throughout the organization by creating cycles of learning and teaching. In these Virtuous Teaching Cycles everyone learns and everyone teaches. They start with top leaders clearly defining and personally teaching their ideas, values, and strategies. But the teaching is not the traditional one-way cram-down of policies and instructions. It is *interactive* teaching in which the students are encouraged to process what they've heard against their own experience and knowledge. They then become