books by Ram Charan     books:       The Source of Success: Five Enduring Principles at the Heart of Real Leadership5 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." ...             The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation15 reviews Lafley, Ram, A. G. Charan audible.com How to understand change... A.G. Lafley's story of changing P&G's business culture is a must read for anyone interested in "change" -- especialy pertinent for small business owners or developers             E-Board Strategies: How to Survive and Win2 reviews Roger Kenny, Ram Charan Riverhead Books,U.S., 2000 Slender Volume But Speaks Volumes Roger Kenny is managing partner of Boardroom Consultants and Ram Charan is a consultant and professor at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business. The heart of this slender volume is a mention of a study done by the venture capital firm, Onset Ventures. Nearly 80% of startups fail to survive the first 18 months of life. Onset surveyed 360 startups and found that one group had a 70% ...             Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't38 reviews Ram Charan Crown Business, 2007 As usual solid advice from Ram Charan Ram Charan has once again showed that doing business is a lot about hard work and less about lofty speeches and buzz words. He teaches the middle manager to think about thier job in the context of the industry they work in. He advises senior managers to have the courage to get into the messy details and make sense of them when defining strategy, laying out execution plans and hiring and firing ...             Boards That Deliver: Advancing Corporate Governance From Compliance to Competitive Advantage5 reviews Jossey-Bass, 2005 Elevation Ram Charan makes a complex topic easy to understand. This book can be "speed read" in 45 minutes and it doesn't make you feel dizzy. Ram Charan is a true thought leader and an inspiration.             Boards At Work: How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage4 reviews 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.             Leaders at All Levels (Unabridged)6 reviews Ram Charan audible.com A pragmatic approach to leadership development throughout any enterprise Now more than ever before, organizations need leadership at all levels and within all areas of their enterprise. The "succession crisis" to which the subtitle of this book refers includes but is by no means limited to C-level executives. With all due respect to formal education and institutional training programs, on-the-job training is (by far) the best preparation for completing more demanding ...             The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company21 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 ...             What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works32 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 ...             Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business : 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning16 reviews Ram Charan, 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 ...             What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently about Sales10 reviews Ram Charan Tantor Media, 2008 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. ...             Conquering a Culture of Indecision (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)1 review Ram Charan Harvard Business Review, 2002 Decisive organizations via clear dialogue from leaders Ram Charan is advisor to top executives at companies like GE, Ford, DuPont, EDS, and Pharmacia. He was formerly with the faculties of Harvard Business School and Northwestern's Kellogg School. This Harvard Business Review-article was published in April 2001. The inability to take decisive action is rooted in the corporate culture and seems to employees to be impervious to change. The authors ...             The 180-Degree Turnaround (HBR Article Collection) Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ram Charan, ... Harvard Business Review, 2003 Does your firm seem bogged down by an indefinable force, even if it's not on the brink of disaster? Do all your financial savvy, sound strategies, and product innovation appear useless? Your company may have a culture of indecision--an inability to make up its collective mind. The symptoms vary: People may be confused about how to execute key decisions. Or they hesitate to state that the emperor has no clothes--until he's left the meeting room. ...             Every Business is a Growth Business7 reviews Noel M. Tichy, Ram Charan John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1999 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 Random House Audio Assets, 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? ...             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done232 reviews Random House Audio, 2002 A "Must Read" for Executives If a business leader were to select one book as a guide to success, this would be my choice. As a former AlliedSignal executive, I have seen these practices applied and reinforced; I have also seen the results that they deliver. The book defines Execution as "...a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring ...              search for books 180-degree, advancing, advantage, business, collection, competitive, compliance, confronting, conquering, corporate, customer, differently, discipline, enhanced, everybody, everyone, execution, game-changer, governance, indecision, innovation, know-how, leadership, pipeline, principles, profitable, separate, strategies, turnaround, unabridged books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: Toshiba PCX1100 / DAZ8813F DOCSIS Broadband High Speed Cable Modem leave a comment home  impressum - about us