Bøger af Ram Charan

Stærke ledere på alle niveauer er en forudsætning for en virksomheds succes. Men i mange virksomheder er ledelsespipelinen – det interne arbejde for at udvikle ledere – gået i stykker eller den eksisterer slet ikke.Mærkeligt nok gør mange virksomheder en meget større indsats for at nå deres økonomiske mål end for at udvælge de bedste folk til de enkelte poster og sikre sig, at der findes de nødvendige kompetencer i virksomheden. Moderne virksomheder skal holde deres ledelsespipeline fyldt og flydende, så de sikrer, at der hele tiden findes en stabil pulje af dygtige ledere i hele organisationen.Denne internationale bestseller har dannet baggrund for arbejdet med at sikre stærke ledere i tusindvis af organisationer verden over. Vi præsenteres for en gennemprøvet model til at planlægge virksomhedens arvefølge og udvikle dens ledere. Modellen hjælper virksomheder med at udvælge, udvikle og evaluere deres ledere på alle niveauer, så ledelseskraften ikke pludselig slipper op, fordi man ikke har forberedt sig i tide.

Shows you how to link together people, strategy and operations - the three core elements of various organisation - and create a business based on dialogue, intellectual honesty and realism.

OVER 300,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE`The most influential consultant alive.' FortuneOne of the classics of business literature, What the CEO Wants You to Know by bestselling author Ram Charan has been expanded and completely updated for today's business world.

Mærkelig nok gør mange virksomheder en meget større indsats for at nå deres regnskabsmæssige mål end for at udvælge de rigtige folk til de rigtige poster. Leadership pipeline-modellen hjælper virksomheder med at udvælge, udvikle og evaluere deres ledere på alle niveauer, så ledelseskraften ikke pludselig slipper op, fordi man ikke har forberedt sig i tide. Pipeline-modellen sørger desuden for, at alle ledere forstår, hvad der forventes af dem på de enkelte ledelsesniveauer. Leadership pipeline-modellen har ændret den måde, virksomheder over hele verden angriber personaleområdet på. Det gælder i det private erhvervsliv og i stigende grad også i det offentlige, hvor modellen i disse år spiller en vigtig rolle. Bogen viser systematisk og anvendelsesorienteret, hvordan alle organisationens enheder skal arbejde med på, at der til stadighed findes de nødvendige kompetencer i virksomheden.

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If you want to win, you need to learn to play a new game. Delving into the inner workings of the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Alibaba, Charan uncovers the six unwritten rules that make the digital giants thrive: from how they use digital platforms and create corporate 'ecosystems', to the way they approach team organisation and moneymaking.

Amazon’s trillion-dollar success is the envy of everyone, but achievable by anyone. What has propelled their record streak of growth? Their management system, and it can do the same for you no matter what business you are in or what level. Learning it is as simple as six building blocks distilled by New York Times bestselling author and global CEO advisor Ram Charan and Julia Yang in The Amazon Management System. The Ultimate Digital Engine that Powered Amazon’s Unprecedented Growth and Shareholder Value Creation:Building Block 1: Customer-Obsessed Business Model Building Block 2: Continuous Bar-Raising Talent Pool Building Block 3: AI-Powered Data & Metrics System Building Block 4: Ground-Breaking Invention Machine Building Block 5: High-Velocity & High-Quality Decision-Making Building Block 6: A forever Day 1 culture. From their high-velocity decision-making to their top talent hiring practices, the insider secrets behind Amazon’s success are now within anyone’s grasp, block by block. Whether you are an established CEO or a recent college grad, this concise and actionable book will help your business win in a new digital era that demands nonstop innovation.

How do some Companies Multiply their Market Cap several times over?Learning to build a high performing talent engine – today’s strategic imperative! In this book, General Atlantic’s Operating Partner Anish Batlaw and veteran business advisor and New York Times bestselling author Ram Charan, show you how to build and incentivize management teams that can multiply enterprise value several times over in 4-5 years. No matter how high your company’s growth goal is, you’ll get from here to there by learning from this book’s riveting narrative of the high-stakes personnel decisions and bold actions taken by CEOs, investors, and boards who grew six real—and world-class—companies, ranging from ecommerce startups to major corporations like Johnson & Johnson. Told from both authors’ firsthand vantage point inside each company, and from Batlaw’s active role in shaping their outcomes, TALENT offers a rare inside look at how shareholder value is created when CEOs move with speed and accuracy to get the right leadership teams in place.  How can you be sure that your company can grow its value as much as these six companies did? By learning from the versatile and replicable methodology presented in this book, which has worked effectively across geographies, cultures, and sectors.  TALENT is the answer. Now is the time.

The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some companies are successful and others are not. Together they've pooled their knowledge and experience into the one book on how to close the gap between results promised and results delivered that people in business need today. After a long, stellar career with General Electric, Larry Bossidy transformed AlliedSignal into one of the world's most admired companies and was named CEO of the year in 1998 by Chief Executive magazine. Accomplishments such as 31 consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share growth of 13 percent or more didn't just happen; they resulted from the consistent practice of the discipline of execution: understanding how to link together people, strategy, and operations, the three core processes of every business. Leading these processes is the real job of running a business, not formulating a "vision" and leaving the work of carrying it out to others. Bossidy and Charan show the importance of being deeply and passionately engaged in an organization and why robust dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism. The leader's most important job-selecting and appraising people-is one that should never be delegated. As a CEO, Larry Bossidy personally makes the calls to check references for key hires. Why? With the right people in the right jobs, there's a leadership gene pool that conceives and selects strategies that can be executed. People then work together to create a strategy building block by building block, a strategy in sync with the realities of the marketplace, the economy, and the competition. Once the right people and strategy are in place, they are then linked to an operating process that results in the implementation of specific programs and actions and that assigns accountability. This kind of effective operating process goes way beyond the typical budget exercise that looks into a rearview mirror to set its goals. It puts reality behind the numbers and is where the rubber meets the road. Putting an execution culture in place is hard, but losing it is easy. In July 2001 Larry Bossidy was asked by the board of directors of Honeywell International (it had merged with AlliedSignal) to return and get the company back on track. He's been putting the ideas he writes about in Execution to work in real time.

A Must Reads that will cover classic issues such as providing strategic oversight to emerging challenges such as activist shareholders.We've read everything we've ever published on boards and corporate governance so you don't have to.Covers classic challenges such as increasing diversity, ensuring a culture that reflects company values, and providing strategic oversight while also addressing emerging issues such as shareholder activism, cybersecurity, and ever-shifting regulations, and more.Provides a content mix of research-based pieces to first-hand advice and experience to practitioner interviews.Audience: Leaders who currently serve--or aspire to serve--on boards. Potential for smaller sub-audience of CEOs and other senior executives who need to interact with boards, who might want to read this book to see what's top of mind for board members.

From a dream team of business leadership experts-including INSEAD professors and mega-bestselling author Ram Charan-this Power Pack helps transform any business in our unprecedented times of change Advanced technologies, upstart entrants, demographic shifts, new world orders, and a global pandemic have put many businesses out of business. CEOs and managers can spin their wheels trying to figure out what works and what doesn't-or they can take the "phoenix" approach. Based on reams of research into effective leadership during times of disruption and crisis, The Phoenix Encounter Method provides a radical new leadership strategic thinking approach to transform business as we know it. Then, the companion to this breakthrough work, The Phoenix Encounter Method: Implementation Guide walks readers through the process steps of executing this leadership method throughout their organization in a practical, hands-on way. This power pack makes both books available to corporate leaders, academics, consultants and executive trainers at a discounted price. The main book asks business leaders to imagine burning their business to the ground, throwing themselves into a "firestorm of change," and turning upheaval into advantage. The implementation guide then walks readers through the process of executing the action steps this leadership method needs throughout their organization in a practical, hands-on way. With both books, readers will learn that they can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes-stronger than ever.

The hands-on playbook for transforming your business with today's most radically effective leadership thinking In The Phoenix Encounter Method, a dream team of INSEAD professors together with the legendary Ram Charan and provided a radical new game plan for transforming any organization. It's about figuratively "burning your business to the ground," turning the upheaval to your advantage, and rising from the ashes stronger than ever. Their method isn't conventional, and it can be daunting-but it works. Now, the authors provide the play-by-play manual you need to implement their strategic thinking approach for maximum impact. Written in full alignment with the original book, The Phoenix Encounter Method Implementation Guide walks you through the three phases to create a future-ready organization:Phoenix Seeking: confront old mindsets, identify new threats and opportunities, prepare for the Encounter battlefield to come. Phoenix Burning: enter the battlefield of Extreme Attack and Horizon Defense, where you apply Encounter tools of Proactive Scanning and the rituals for Completely Opposite Viewpoints Debates, including Radical Ideation and the Separation Imperative to generate a wider set of options.Phoenix Rising: turn battlefield insights into a Future-Facing Blueprint, as well as analysis, planning, and execution work. Whether you're a corporate leader, academic, consultant, or executive trainer, The Phoenix Encounter Method Implementation Guide provides everything you need to embrace the firestorm of change raging through today's business world, to drive revenue, profits, and long-term sustainability.

A radical new leadership strategy to transform business as we know it from a dream team of INSEAD professors and mega-bestselling author Ram Charan The business landscape is littered with the wreckage of companies that crashed and burned when an apocalypse came in the shape of new competitive technologies, upstart entrants, demographic shifts, and new world orders. Who can feel safe in firestorm change? The authors of The Phoenix Encounter Method don t advise safety. In fact, their method of leadership thinking requires you to imagine burning your business to the ground throwing yourself into a firestorm change and turning the upheaval to your organization s advantage. It can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes, stronger and more powerful than ever. Written with a sense of urgency and purposefully radical provocation, The Phoenix Encounter Method represents the forward thinking of legendary business guru Ram Charan and professors from the senior global leadership program of INSEAD, one of the world s top graduate business schools. The resulting methodology, based on analysis of thousands of articles, studies, reports, and academic and business practice, was field tested in real-life Phoenix Encounters conducted with more than fifteen hundred senior executives from startups and family businesses to legacy companies representing a broad range of industry and sectors in both developed and developing economies. Whatever your sector or industry, if you re responsible for your organization s ability to use change as a transformative opportunity, you ll appreciate the dramatic impact The Phoenix Encounter Method will have on you, your leadership, and your organization.

The classic on the universal laws of business success, completely revised and updated for today's leadersCompletely rewritten for today's business world, What the CEO Wants You to Know, expanded and updated, written by bestselling author Ram Charan, describes the fundamentals behind every business, from street vendors in Mumbai, to Fortune 500 companies. Drawing on stories from Uber, Amazon, Apple, Toyota, Netflix, Lyft, The Limited, Walmart, GE and Starbucks, Charan, in the most accessible language imaginable, explains the ins and outs of how companies work, from gross revenue and operating costs, to inventory and cash flow, from turnover, profits and margins, to return on capital and accounts payable and receivable, from product quality to sales. A classic in the business literature, with hundreds of thousands of copies in print, this short and engaging book is like a miniature MBA course between covers.For everyone who wants to master and understand the levers that drive a successful business, What the CEO Wants You to Know is the perfect answer.

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. This book shows how to survive in this climate.

Is your firms board creating valueor destroying it?Change is coming. Leadership at the top is being redefined as boards take a more active role in decisions that once belonged solely to the CEO. But for all the advantages of increased board engagement, it can create debilitating questions of authority and dangerous meddling in day-to-day operations. Directors need a new road mapfor when to lead, when to partner, and when to stay out of the way.Boardroom veterans Ram Charan, Dennis Carey, and Michael Useem advocate this new governance modela sharp departure from what has been demanded by governance activists, raters, and regulatorsand reveal the emerging practices that are defining shared leadership of directors and executives. Based on personal interviews and the authors broad and deep experience working with executives and directors from dozens of the worlds largest firms, including Apple, Boeing, Ford, Infosys, and Lenovo, Boards That Lead tells the inside story behind the successes and pitfalls of this new leadership model and explains how to: Define the central idea of the company Ensure that the right CEO is in place and potential successors are identified Recruit directors who add value Root out board dysfunction Select a board leader who deftly bridges the divide between management and the board Set a high bar on ethics and riskWith a total of eighteen checklists that will transform board directors from monitors to leaders, Charan, Carey, and Useem provide a smart and practical guide for businesspeople everywherewhether they occupy the boardroom or the C-suite.

According to business guru Ram Charan, the process of selling is broken. Demand for competitive pricing is ever on the increase, and customers want more than great products at great prices; they want you to know how their business works, so that you can make it work better. It is time for companies to re-think their selling processes, and that's where Charan's concept of Value Creation Selling fits in. It is a new approach that while radical is nonetheless practical and produces stronger customer relationships and long term rewards. VCS will enable you to:Gain a deeper knowledge of your customer's businessUse this knowledge to improve your customer's marginsShow how your product and expertise is a winning combinationSomeday, every company will listen more closely to the customer. In the meantime, this eye opening book will show you how to get ahead of the competition.

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The legendary business adviser and bestselling author shows how to go on the offensive to both shape and take advantage of the forces of uncertainty, turbulence, and strategic disruption that are creating new customer needs, market segments and ways to make money.

Unleash one of your company's greatest competitive weapons. Ram Charan is a wise counselor and keen observer on the front lines of the American board revolution. Boards At Work is a rare blAnd of candid stories of casualties, of victories, and of sound ideas for change illustrated with real-world examples of how to adopt them.

Intends to create a blueprint for talent development, and to show how critical it is to the continuing and future success of every business.

Leadership guru Ram Charan describes the best emerging practices for boards of directors - with real examples of how some of the best in the business solve today's nightmarish boardroom problems. The subprime mortgage caught many financial service giants unaware, and reached far beyond trading desks all the way to their boardrooms.

In this ground-breaking new book, Ram Charan, co-author of the bestselling Execution, redefines leadership by focusing on eight specific practical skills that, if mastered, are guaranteed to bring success. 1.