Product Description
Know-How
Author(s): Ram Charan
Format: Paperback
The 8 Skills that Separate People who Perform From Those Who Don't
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. Positioning - formulating a clear central idea that chimes with your customers' desires and allows the business to be profitable.
2. Detecting patterns - recognising key variables that may create barriers to growth.
3. Managing the social system - influencing the workplace environment so that people can pull together and make the right decisions at the right time.
4. Selecting (and deselecting) people - spotting talent, and making the change when the fit isn't right.
5. Leading your management team - trusting, and inspiring, an effective team of managers.
6. Setting goals - deciding what the business can achieve.
7. Setting priorities - assessing the actions that need to be taken in order to meet your goals.
8. Dealing with external parties - making sure that outside power groups beyond your control do not affect your business unduly.
About the Author
'One of the world's most renowned management consultants and authors.' Fast Company Widely acclaimed as one of our greatest business strategists, Ram Charan is the author of over a dozen books, including the perennial bestseller Execution. Formerly an award-winning professor at Harvard Business School, he has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies - including Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Tata, 3M, GE and Verizon.
Prof. Ram Charan has authored and co-authored more than 30 books that have sold over 4 million copies in more than a dozen languages. He was among Business Week's top ten resources for in-house executive development programs. Four of his books were Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Execution, which figured more than 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
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