Teaching Others
Outstanding leaders are outstanding teachers. Noel Tichy addresses this concept clearly in his work with Nancy Cardwell, The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win (2002). They believe that institutions throughout society must have the capacity to develop leaders at all levels. Tichy and Cardwell call these teaching organizations with virtuous teaching cycles “dynamic, interactive processes in which everyone teaches, everyone learns and everyone gets smarter, every day” (p. xxiv). Regardless of their hierarchical position in the organization, leaders learn from each other and from followers.
In addition to holding a philosophy of continual learning, exemplary leaders also understand the principles ...
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