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6 New Rules for the Digital Age

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Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan is one of those books. Charan has taken years of observation and distilled it into six practical rules to guide you into this digital age. Charan distinguishes digital capability and digital platform. Most traditional companies don’t think big enough.

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Leading Thoughts for September 23, 2021

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Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan on the need for leaders to create an organization that can confront reality: “Exercising the power of realism requires an open and inquisitive mind, intense curiosity, the intellectual ability to sort out complexity, the ability to persuade others, and—undergirding it all—the courage of inner strength.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2013

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Global Tilt : Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift by Ram Charan. Where Winners Live : Sell More, Earn More, Achieve More Through Personal Accountability by Dave Porter and Linda Galindo. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 120 titles.

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7 Guiding Principles for Developing Leadership Talent

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In The Talent Masters , Bill Conaty and Ram Charan explain how to do it. Conaty and Charan say that this is actually the hardest part of becoming a talent master. People deliver numbers. If you want the numbers, you need the people. As a leader you need to know how to judge raw human talent. Candor gets the truth out.

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2013

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Boards That Lead : When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way by Ram Charan, Dennis Carey and Michael Useem. Hacking Leadership : The 11 Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets to Closing Them Quickly by Mike Myatt.

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How Should Leaders Address Challenge Of Low Performers?

Tanveer Naseer

Sometimes, coaching can help, in fact, sometimes the problem is that managers are not providing coaching or training when they first notice there’s a problem, according to Ram Charan, a business advisor, speaker, and bestselling author whose books have sold more than 4 million copies.

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Leading Thoughts for June 25, 2020

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Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan on humility: “The more you can contain your ego, the more realistic you are about your problems. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. You learn how to listen and admit that you don’t know all the answers.

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