Product Description: The phenomenon of uncertainty is not new; what is new is its intensity and potential to change industries and destroy companies. Business leaders can be on the defensive, or they can be on offense, prepared to lead decisively. The ability to deal with uncertainty is perhaps the paramount skill leaders must have to be successful in this era...read more

Focusing on a two-fold approach and using examples from real life, this guide demonstrates how high-level executives can utilize their knowledge base, experience, and wisdom of their corporate board members to expedite information flow and the exchange of business ideas. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

The author offers a new model for corporate management, showing readers how the recent spate of CEO scandals and new legislation have changed the landscape for corporate heads, forcing management at large corporations to act decisively to regain the trust of shareholders.

Examines the changes confronting modern-day business and furnishes techniques and strategies to help companies redefine corporate management theory and practice to meet the challenges of the era.

Looks at the dramatic changes confronting the new world of modern-day business and furnishes a series of tools, techniques, and strategies to help companies redefine corporate management theory and practice to meet the challenges of the era and help companies become successful. By the authors of Execution. 250,000 first printing.

Product Description: Every contact of each employee with a customer is an opportunity for revenue growth. That includes everyone from the people working in a company's call center handling customer inquiries and complaints to the CEO. In this book, Charan provides the building blocks and tools that can put a business on the path to sustained profitable growth...read more

The authors bring their experience as consultants to the managers of such large companies as CocaCola, Dupont, and Ford to bear on the quest for continual, profitable growth, showing companies in any industry how to foster it. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Explains how to make the leap from the vision of a good idea to delivering results and demonstrates how to handle sudden changes in the business environment by making crucial connections among people, strategy, and the operating plan.

Explaining how to make the leap from the vision of a good idea to actually delivering bottom-line results, this innovative business management handbook demonstrates how to deal effectively with sudden changes in the business environment by making crucial connections among people, strategy, and the operating plan. Read by the authors.

Product Description: 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 jobLarry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results...read more

How you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job.Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; significantly improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins; and averaged earnings per share growth of 12 percent. How? A. G. Lafley and his leadership team have integrated innovation into everything P&G does and created new customers and new markets. Through eye-opening stories A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan show how P&G and companies such as Honeywell, Nokia, LEGO, GE, HP, and DuPont have become game-changers. Their inspiring lessons can help you learn how to:• Make consumers and customers the boss, not the CEO or the management team• Innovate to grow a mature business• Develop higher growth, higher margin businesses • Create new customers and new markets • Revitalize a business model• Reach outside your own business and tap into the abundant brainpower and creativity of the world • Integrate innovation into the mainstream of your managerial decision making • Manage risk• Become a leader of innovationWe live in a world of unprecedented change, increasing global competitiveness, and the very real threat of commoditization. Innovation in this world is the best way to win—arguably the only way to really win. Innovation is not a separate, discrete activity but the job of everyone in a leadership position and the integral, central driving force for any business that wants to grow organically and succeed on a sustained basis.This is a game-changing book that helps you redefine your leadership and improve your management game.From the Hardcover edition.

Product Description: The world’s economic center of gravity has shifted.  Permanently.  Do you know what it now takes to succeed?   The global tilt is nothing less than an irreversible shift of economic power—jobs, wealth, and market opportunities—from a small part of the world to its entirety...read more

Anew model for corporate management, written for meeting the challenges of today's turbulent business environment, a useful resources offers members helpful ways to wrestle with formerly taboo topics.

Discusses the essential skills people need to accomplish their goals, linking eight important skills of know-how to the psychological traits of a successful leader.

Learn how top companies solve the problem of leadership succession from corporate America's leading consultant. A serious crisis looms in American management today. More and more CEOs are failing; there remains an acute shortage of capable replacements. The true dilemma in leadership is the stagnant state of corporate leadership development. Because companies fail to hone their unit managers' leadership abilities, they are never able to fill their succession pipelines. With unit managers stagnating, companies have difficulty executing at every level, compounding the crisis. In I>Leaders at All Levels, bestselling author Ram Charan shows how top companies approach leadership development as a core competency, recognizing that an adaptable leadership pool is a competitive advantage, and focusing their attention on bringing out the best in the leaders they have. Charan reveals exactly what's wrong with corporate leadership development and tells how to make it right. He explains the concept of a leadership "gene pool" and shows how companies can discover just what "DNA" they need to succeed. He also details how to uncover the hidden leaders in a company, when and where to bring in fresh talent, how to coach, measure, and reward leadership, and much more. For CEOs, directors, and anyone involved in leadership development, Leaders at All Levels is an eye-opening guide on how to get succession right.

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Product Description: La diferencia entre administrar una gran compañía y gestionar un pequeño comercio es, en realidad, mínima. El verdadero director ejecutivo debe conocer todos los trucos para reducir el más complejo de los negocios a sus fundamentos y desarrollar una visión para los negocios, es decir, la capacidad de concentrarse en los pr...read more

"This book is a most important contribution for both new and experienced directors, addressing contemporary corporate governance. The 14 practical questions represent the most vital issues that boards need to proactively address and are particularly crucial now as boards deal with the aftermath of the global financial tsunami." —Thomas J. Neff, chairman, U.S., Spencer Stuart "If Corporate America's board members had answered these questions, the crisis of '08 would have been avoided. The book is that powerful. It should be required reading in every boardroom, executive suite, and business school on the planet. This book with its singular wisdom could change the face of corporate governance—with huge dividends to shareholders and society." —Ralph Whitworth, principal, Relational Investors LLC "Ram Charan always seems to get it right. Owning Up not only asks the right questions, it gives answers that can make a real difference for improving board performance." —James M. Kilts, former chairman and CEO, The Gillette Company "As always, well-reasoned, insightful, and thought-provoking. A work that every director will find of value, particularly given the intense pressure of these unprecedented economic times." —Professor Charles M. Elson, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware "Here is the book that every corporate director needs today. With his decades of insider experience, Ram Charan brings more wisdom and insight to this subject than anyone else I know." —Geoff Colvin, Fortune editor and author, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else