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The Leadership Engine: A Teachable Point of View

January 11, 1999

"Organizations that have a Leadership Engine win because they have leaders at every level who teach others to be leaders.  Teaching and learning are at the heart of these organizations.  Noel Tichy wrote about the basic building blocks of leadership in The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level.  Leaders have these building blocks and they teach others so that they have them too.

* Learn from experience.
* Develop teachable points of view about both how to build and run a business and how to develop other leaders.
* Generate sound ideas for how the business will add value and succeed in the marketplace.
* Instill values that help the organization reach its goals;
* Create positive emotional energy.
* Make tough decisions
* Pull all the other elements together into vibrant stories that motivate others to reach for a better future (Tichy, 1997, p.199)."

Do you have the basic building blocks of leadership?

Reference:  Tichy, N.M. (1997).  The leadership engine.  New York: HarperBusiness

* The Leadership Engine is available on loan at the OSU Leadership Center.  A listing of all the Leadership Center's resources is available on our website www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~leaders

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Created: 2009-01-06, Updated: 2009-01-18