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Noel Tichy: A Practitioner-Scholar and Educator Creating a Sustainable Change Framework

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Noel M. Tichy is situated as a practitioner-scholar and educator. The chapter centers his research on the development of a sustainable change framework grounded in scholarly research yet presented to a practitioner audience (Tichy & Bennis, 2007a). His work was based on a philosophy of empowering individuals to be the leaders of their own change efforts. He developed a model and framework based on three components of change. Over years of teaching and implementing this model, he developed additional frameworks that drive sustainable change during the lifetime of an organization. Taken together, his research into change, leadership and judgment, and leadership succession presents a ready-made blueprint organizations and executives can use to drive and sustain organizational change.

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Jordan, J.B. (2021). Noel Tichy: A Practitioner-Scholar and Educator Creating a Sustainable Change Framework. In: Szabla, D.B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4_58

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