Leadership Skills

Projecting bold business visions is easy; actualizing them is the hard part. Ram Charan's Know-How identifies the nexus of success not as rhetorical vision but as the link between skilled people and a leader who knows how to optimize their energies as a team. He particularizes eight key skills that can make or break a company or even a department. Dr. Charan's leadership lessons are already well respected in boardrooms: His clients include General Electric, DuPont, Verizon, Home Depot, and KLM, so perhaps it's not surprising that this book arrives with strong endorsements, including this one by Stephen R. Covey: "What Peter Drucker's The Practice of Management and The Effective Executive were to the 20th century industrial age, Ram Charan's Know-How is to the 21st century global digital knowledge worker age."

The new grand theory of leadership by Ram Charan . . . The breakthrough book that links know-how--the skills of people who know what they are doing-- with the personal and psychological traits of the successful leader.

How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air? All too often we mistake the appearance of leadership for the real deal. Without a doubt, intelligence, vision, and the ability to communicate are important. But something big is missing: the know-how of running a business--the capacity to take it in the right direction, do the right things, make the right decisions, deliver results, and leave the people and the business better off than they were before.

For well over four decades, Ram Charan has been learning in the most visceral way the underlying reasons why leaders succeed and fail. As one of the most influential advisers to top management teams of leading companies around the world, he has had a front-row seat to observe the cause and effect of leadership practices and behaviors.

Ram Charan's insight into the real content of leadership provides you with the eight fundamental skills needed for success in the twenty-first century:

* Positioning (and, when necessary, repositioning) your business by zeroing in on the central idea that meets customer needs and makes money

* Connecting the dots by pinpointing patterns of external change ahead of others