While teaching at the MBA program at the University of Michigan (Ross School of Business), Tichy along with Jim Danko and Paul Danos, first instituted " the defining attribute" of the program: Multidisciplinary Action Projects in which students work on an actual corporate business issue.
[1] In 2009, the Washington Post named Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will which he co-authored with Stratford Sherman as one of the Top 10 leadership books.
[7] He is the co-author along with Warren Bennis of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls.
[8] The New York Times review stated that they "write about 'empowering frontline people,' but they seem hung up on finding that single Great Leader.
[10] The New York Times says that his book is "sometimes angry" and uses case studies to make his points.