Ram Charan Books

Digitally transform your organization, one manageable step at a time In The Digital Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth , a team of visionary entrepreneurs delivers an authoritative and engaging roadmap demonstrating how to digitalize your business by taking small, achievable steps that yield measurable, near-term results. In this handbook of concrete strategies and methods, the authors show you how to pinpoint and implement bite-sized projects that sync up with your business priorities. You’ll learn how to find and choose between the digital enablement options available to you while discovering the tools you need to explain their value to stakeholders and get much-needed buy-in from executives, managers, and employees. You’ll A can’t-miss resource for executives, managers, and other business leaders, The Digital Leader also belongs in the bookshelves of IT and data professionals seeking to maximize their impact on the businesses around them.

From the million-copy-bestselling author of Execution'Ingenious . In this lively, accessible guide, Ram Charan - million-copy-bestselling author and advisor to some of the world's top CEOs - reveals that the tech giants have radically rewritten the rules of business.

The global economic landscape is 'tilting': countries such as China, India and Brazil are racing forward while established American and European companies struggle to keep up. To survive in this new climate, CEOs need to respond quickly and effectively, and in Global Tilt, best selling coauthor of Execution Ram Charan shows how. His advice includes: - Unlearn Old Lessons - Get Ready for Strategic Bets - Fight the Short-Term Beast - Change Your Psychology In this age of rapid economic change, we all have to be on our toes. Is your business ready to survive the Global Tilt?

Every Business is a Growth Business is your one-stop guide to making profitable growth happen. It's a radical and refreshing source of ideas, inspiration, and common sense, all based on the unparalleled experience and access of Ram Charan and Noel Tichy.

One of the most influential advisors to companies around the world uses his wide-ranging experience and unusual depth of insight to provide a bold, new framework for why people succeed.

Intro: Memo to the CEO: your talent playbook -- Forge the tools of transformation -- Energize the board -- Design & redesign the work of the organization -- Reinvent HR as a source of competitive advantage -- Scale up individual talent -- Create an M & A strategy for talent -- Drive the talent playbook

Learn how top companies solve the problem of leadership succession from corporate America's leading consultant. A serious crisis looms in American management today. More and more CEOs are failing; there remains an acute shortage of capable replacements. The true dilemma in leadership is the stagnant state of corporate leadership development. Because companies fail to hone their unit managers' leadership abilities, they are never able to fill their succession pipelines. With unit managers stagnating, companies have difficulty executing at every level, compounding the crisis. In I>Leaders at All Levels, bestselling author Ram Charan shows how top companies approach leadership development as a core competency, recognizing that an adaptable leadership pool is a competitive advantage, and focusing their attention on bringing out the best in the leaders they have. Charan reveals exactly what's wrong with corporate leadership development and tells how to make it right. He explains the concept of a leadership "gene pool" and shows how companies can discover just what "DNA" they need to succeed. He also details how to uncover the hidden leaders in a company, when and where to bring in fresh talent, how to coach, measure, and reward leadership, and much more. For CEOs, directors, and anyone involved in leadership development, Leaders at All Levels is an eye-opening guide on how to get succession right.

Seventy percent of all change initiatives fail. Yours won’t have to—when you apply the practices provided in HBR on Leading Through Change. In this vital new resource, today’s leading thinkers offer suggestions for articulating a compelling vision of an organization’s future, overcoming employee resistance to change, and surmounting other challenges that come with leading change.

Together, these authors have more first-hand experience in leadership development and succession planning than you're likely to find anywhere else. And here, they show companies how to create a pipeline of talent that will continuously fill their leadership needs-needs they may not even yet realize. The Leadership Pipeline delivers a proven framework for priming future leaders by planning for their development, coaching them, and measuring the results of those efforts. Moreover, the book presents a combination leadership-development/succession-planning program that ensures a steady line-up of leaders for every critical position within the company. It's an approach that bolsters the retention of intellectual capital as it eliminates the need to go outside for expensive "stars," who will probably jump ship before they reach their full potential anyway.

With case histories from the real world - including such recent examples such as the diverging paths taken by Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase and Charles Prince at Citigroup - Execution provides the realistic and hard-nosed approach to business success that could only come from authors as accomplished and insightful as Bossidy and Charan.

"Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to understand and use the business model as the primary tool for confronting reality - a breakthrough that will become the management innovation of this decade - you'll know sooner rather than later whether your fundamental business premise is under assault, where your best opportunities lie, what you should change and what you should leave alone, and how to realistically plan the future of your business."--BOOK JACKET.

Have you ever noticed that the best CEOs seem to have a special kind of street smarts? They sense where the opportunities in their industries are and how to take advantage of them. And their companies make money consistently, year after year. The best CEOs have a knack for simplifying the most complex business practices down to the fundamentals--the same fundamentals of the family shoe shop. Originally published in 2001, What the CEO Wants You to Know explains in clear, simple language how to do what great CEOs do instinctively and persistently: Understanding the basic building blocks of a business and using them to figure out how your company operates as a total business Decide what to do when, despite the clutter of day-to-day to-do lists and the complexity of the real world What the CEO Wants You to Know takes the mystery out of business and offers a clear road map of organizational success.

In this era of market saturation and fierce competition, many executives base their growth strategies on finding a new product or service that will revolutionize the market, or they simply focus on cutting costs at any price. The author presents a much more coherent and secure alternative to ensure profitable growth, which is based on small daily advancements and the continuous adaptation to changes in the environment. This approach carries the revolutionary idea that growth is everyone's business, not just the concern of the sales force or top management. Just as everyone is involved in cost reduction, everyone must also commit to the company's growth: from those who handle customer inquiries and complaints to the CEO. In this innovative book, Ram Charan provides the basic tools to guide a company toward sustained and profitable growth. His proposals have proven effective in all types of companies and can be implemented immediately.

Bill Conaty and Ram Charan, two superstars of the business world, use their insider knowledge at a wide range of companies to provide a system any business can use to build its most valuable asset: talented leaders who can deliver the goods.

Sheds new light on the key role of innovation as the centerpiece of any business endeavor, guiding everything from budgeting and strategy to employee selection, and describes how to integrate innovation into the goals, strategies, and everyday processes of a business

Explains how to transform the sales process by focusing on a customer's problems, values, and goals, in a guide that also covers how to address pricing concerns while making sales issues relevant to external departments.

Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, with a track record for delivering results that has few peers. One with a highly practical framework for closing the gap between results promised and results delivered.

"There is no better person than Ram Charan to provide advice on managing in a downturn."--Larry Bossidy, Former Chairman and CEO Honeywell International Inc. As a business leader today, you face an unprecedented the worldwide economic downturn. Cash and credit are dwindling, sales forecasts are dismal, and morale is sinking. This is not a time to reflect. It is a time to act, decide, and energize your people...with urgency... This is your moment.Are you up to the task? In Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty , Ram Charan helps you steer your business through the minefi eld of contracting markets, cash shortages, and ongoing uncertainty. No matter what your leadership role, Charan's insight will help ensure that your business emerges leaner, stronger, and well in front of the competition. "We will not know when we have turned the corner, and we cannot envision the shape and scope of the world that will emerge," Charan writes. "What we can be sure of is that this is a time of tumultuous change, and with change come both danger and opportunity." In this concise and highly accessible guide, the author provides practical actions you can execute immediately

Interviews met een tiental topmanagers.

Důsledná realizace záměrů a cílů, dotahování úkolů, projektů a plánů do zdárného konce a schopnost dosahovat očekávaných výsledků, to jsou důležité znaky, jimiž se může vaši firma zásadně odlišit od konkurentů. Realizační činnosti - oblast, která není možná tolik "sexy" jako jiné aspekty podnikatelské praxe - jsou také tím nejdůležitějším úkolem vrcholových vedoucích pracovníků, tvrdí ve své společné knize legendární manažer Larry Bossidy (GE, AlliedSignal, Honeywell) a přední světový poradce v oboru podnikového managementu Ram Charan. Autoři dokládají, že realizační činnosti opravdu nejsou jen banálními detaily, které by mohli vrcholoví vedoucí pracovníci bezezbytku "delegovat" podřízeným. Naopak: Jejich osobní a systematická angažovanost v základních podnikových procesech (personální proces, strategický proces, provozní proces), o něž se úspěšné realizační činnosti opírají, je pro úspěch podniku absolutně nezbytná. Prakticky orientovaný text doplňuje a ilustruje velké množství příkladů z praxe špičkových světových podniků.