Top leaders share certain crafty talents
USA TODAY, December, 2007 by Bruce Rosenstein
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Judgment
By Noel M. Tichy, Warren G. Bennis
Portfolio, 392 pages, $26.95
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Every day is judgment day for the best leaders. That's the major take-away from Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls.
Respected writers Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis teamed for the first time for this detailed, yet accessible, book. Some background: Tichy co-authored the best seller Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will, about the Jack Welch era at General Electric. Bennis' works include On Becoming a Leader.
It's crucial to make sound judgments in three areas:
*People. Hiring, placement, development and firing, CEO succession.
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*Strategy. Where your organization is going and how it gets there.
*Dealing with crisis. Which inevitably comes when least expected.
Judgment is based on the authors' research and experience as consultants. They interviewed top CEOs -- General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt, Procter & Gamble's A.G. Lafley, Boeing's Jim McNerney ...
