Customer Review: The book asserts that execution is a discipline that is integral to a successful strategy. Execution is the business leaders' responsibility to make it part of the corporate culture. The book contains details of both successful and unsuccessful executions at corporations such as Dell, Johnson &... more info
Customer Review: As an executive coach I work with new managers, midline managers, business owners and executives. The Leadership Pipeline clearly outlines the differences in attitudes, responsibilities and influence each type of leader holds.
Author of Blueprint for Success co-authored with Stephen R. Covey... more info
Customer Review: A very good quick read. Really brings fundamental concepts together quite well. Very easy to understand. Really interesting insight from a Vendor point of view. I recommend.
Customer Review: I start to suspect, that I have too high expectations for business books I read. Still, if on a back cover you read such reviews as:"revolutionary book", or "hits the bull's eye" it is hard not to pay attention.
When you start reading it, you realise that you're not quite the target audience... more info
Customer Review: Reading his every book, one can observe that Ram Charan is a very passionate advocate of organic growth of businesses through operational efficiency and healthy cash flow. Each one of his books takes up a specific management concept to explain how excelling in that area can lead to profitable... more info
Customer Review: Whilst the sub title of "Leadership In The Era Of Economic Uncertainty" reads "The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times", it is more a narrative by the author Ram Charan than "rules" per se. None-the-less, the narrative is effective, well directed and most pertinent to... more info
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... more info
Customer Review: This book has a great premise - that improving profitability can be done through two often contradictory approaches - cost cutting and growing (profitable) revenue. It also explains the allure of cost-cutting - that it is more predictable because it is not dependent on the world outside the company.... more info
Customer Review: If you have read the Leadership Pipeline (co-authored by the same guy) then you have seen most of the thoughts expressed here. It is focused on the top end of the management chain and the failure of many corporations to adequately foster the growth and development of leaders from within the company.... more info
Customer Review: Ram Charan delivers another incisive and compelling book on a subject vital to companies and leaders competing in a fierce global market, during turbulent times. Companies need every advantage they can muster. In this book, Mr. Charan provides a roadmap for moving boards from ceremonial, to... more info