books by Ram Charan     books:       Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: Managing in a Downturn20 reviews Ram Charan McGraw-Hill, 2008 Costs down within days! Most inspiring to make changes In short: I would highly recommend this book to entrepreneurs who are looking for ideas on how to change their organizations. I would also recommend it to consultants who assist entrepreneurs in changing or strengthening organizations. Thank you, Ram, for this book! There is only a small number of books that really inspire to change things. Within a week of reading the book, I halved the ...             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done246 reviews Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ... Crown Business, 2002 Plan (49%) and Execute (51%)! Amazing book by Charam and Bossidy. The main idea is: plan carefully but do not forget that if you don`t execute it, it will be a 49% complete bridge: it will have no use. Another important insight: planning is not a more 'noble' action than executing. Planners are not more important than executors. In my experience, they are slightly less: 49% of the job is plan and 51% is doing it.             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan Books On Tape, 2002             What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently About Sales13 reviews Ram Charan Portfolio Hardcover, 2007 Author Hits a Home Run With This Book! Ram Charan is outstanding at presenting the customer's perspective in the sales process. Often times sales people get hung up selling themselves, their company and on product features rather than focusing on customer needs. Turning things around and having sales people focus on how they can help a customer solve improve their business or process can change the sales process completely. ...             Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't40 reviews Ram Charan Crown Business, 2007 How to be or judge a great CEO The book starts out by discussing a frustrating topic "the appearance of leadership." Unfortunately certain traits can lead people to assume someone would make a good (effective) CEO, but these can often be deceptive. A CEO that delivers results over a sustained period will be one who has "know-how". The author describes that as the following eight characteristics: 1. The ability to ...             Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask4 reviews Ram Charan Jossey-Bass, 2009 Profound and Abstract Ram Charam's Harvard Business School doctoral thesis was on Boards of Directors. For nearly four decades, he has continued to expand and to deepen in this area of expertise. He works with boards on board self-evaluations, CEO evaluations, and director succession planning. Charan also serves on the Board of at least one major public company. Former CEO of DuPont Jack Krol describes this book ...             What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works33 reviews Ram Charan Crown Business, 2001 Common Sense made into Common Sense. Often I hear people say "anyone can do business, it's just common sense." So why do we have so many failing companies? Dr. Charan answered so many of the questions of why people screw up in the business world. He combined parts of "common sense business" (profit margin, velocity, growth, customers, etc.) into a concept he refers to as Business Acumen. Many businessmen tend to focus on a ...             Boards That Deliver: Advancing Corporate Governance From Compliance to Competitive Advantage (J-B US ...7 reviews Ram Charan Jossey-Bass, 2005 Read this to demystify the world of the Board Board rooms are one of the last bastions of secrecy in today's increasingly transparent world. Talking with the board often causes people to talk in hushed tones and reverence. However, Charan's book reminds us that Boards consist of people with responsibilities to discharge and tools to use. This book is a must read for every executive to remind them of the foundational elements that run the ...             The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation20 reviews A.G. Lafley, Ram Charan Crown Business, 2008 An imperative read... This book is definitely something... It is very well organized and interesting. I learned a lot about Procter & Gamble's history and achievements. I even learned about John Pepper's call to A. G. asking him whether he's prepared to be CEO. It was a quick phone call. Moreover, I learned about other companies' innovation initiatives that allowed them to be successful. Learning these is very ...             The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company22 reviews Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, ... Jossey-Bass, 2000 A thoughtful and helpful look at the upward transitions This book gives you a thoughtful and reasoned look at the upward transitions process. It does an excellent job of outlining the needs and potential problems at each career stage. The advice is usable by three groups of potential readers. You should buy this book if you are a senior manager, human resources executive, or board member in a company of any size who wants to understand the ...             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Warren Adler, Larry Bossidy, ... Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2002             The Source of Success: Five Enduring Principles at the Heart of Real Leadership (J-B US non-Franchise ...5 reviews Peter Georgescu Jossey-Bass, 2005 A Successful look at Success This is a superb and inspirational book on the qualities that are required in today's business environment to succeed. Mr. Georgescu writes the book in sections that correspond to his ideas. The first of these is that the world has changed fundamentally and requires a fresh way of thinking about business and customers. He appropriately calls this chapter, "The End of the World as We Know It." ...             El arte de la ejecucion en los negocios/Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Spanish Edition) Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan Punto de Lectura, 2008 Bossidy, one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, teams up with a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, to create this unique and indispensable guide to corporate strategy. In it, they focus on the quality most essential to every business-the ability to get things done. They illustrate the importance of execution and its three main building blocks. Description in Spanish: Las mejores ideas del mundo valen menos que ...             Every Business is a Growth Business: How Your Company Can Prosper Year After Year8 reviews Ram Charan, Noel Tichy Three Rivers Press, 2000 Every Leader should read this...then read again! This is one of my favorite leadership books by two authors with whom I have a great deal of respect for their advice. The premise of the book it that by looking at the entire business landscape affecting your clients, there are larger opportunities in which to solve the client's CEO issues beyond the immediate customer orders. Written with real world examples, some of which were first hand ...             Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right28 reviews Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan Crown Business, 2004 Excellent Business Book! Confronting Reality" is a gold-mine of perspective on how to get an organization properly focused - starting by confronting reality. It belongs on the bookshelf of every manager with bottom-line responsibility. Bossidy begins by stating that any plan for a business has to answer three questions: 1)What's the nature of the game we're in? 2)Where is it going? 3)How do we make money in it? ...             Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis (J-B US non-Franchise ...8 reviews Ram Charan Jossey-Bass, 2007 Faulty Conventional Wisdom About Leadership "The first law of holes--when you're in one, stop digging--tells us what to do: abandon our traditional leadership development practices. They're not working." And with that blast across the corporate training bow, best-selling author Ram Charan delivers a revolutionary, but thoroughly practical new look at how to rebuild succession and leadership development from the ground up. His remedy: ...             Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning17 reviews Ram Charan Crown Business, 2004 Charan does it again: ten ways to make more money This excellent, short work is a classic in its genre. Author Ram Charan outlines in no-nonsense, albeit sometimes prolix, style the essentials that all managers need to know to make their businesses and their revenues grow. Charan offers 10 basic principles, explains each one clearly, and provides anecdotal examples. The author readily admits that the principles are mostly common sense, and even ...             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan Random House Business Books, 2002 Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, with a track record for delivering results that has few peers. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, with unparalleled insight into why some companies are successful and others not. The result is the book people in business need today. Leaders who create execution cultures focus on five key items: 1. They pick specific priorities for their ...             Boards At Work: How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership)4 reviews Ram Charan Jossey-Bass, 1998 Sound advice on good governance This book shows top executives how to use the knowledge of, and open up communication channels with, board members. It details practices of several major corporations. The author highlights all key points increasing the value of this work. Several helpful self-evaluation instruments are included. This work offers sound advice on good governance. Recommended to executives and directors.             The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD) Stephen Drotter, and James Noel Ram Charan, 2006 Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel are three eminent business consultants on the cutting edge of the knowledge economy. They have coached managers at many world-class organizations--and now their combined expertise on the subject of leadership is condensed in the fascinating book The Leadership Pipeline.              search for books advancing, advantage, business, competitive, compliance, confronting, corporate, deepening, differently, discipline, economic, ejecucion, enduring, everybody, execution, franchise, game-changer, governance, innovation, know-how, leadership, leadership-powered, non-franchise, pipeline, principles, profitable, questions, succession, unabridged, uncertainty books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen tools & hardware: Retraact-It 9500 EZTV Flat Panel Monitor Tiltable Wall Mount for ... home  impressum - about us