Ram Charan

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Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't

Ram Charan has worked with top management teams around the world; learning in the most visceral way the underlying reasons why leaders succeed and fail. In this presentation, he shares his new grand theory of leadership. 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, deliver results, and leave the people and the business better off than they were before. By Showing audiences how the eight know-hows link to, interact with, and reinforce personal and psychological traits, Ram Charan provides a fascinating portrait of successful leaders of the twenty-first century - one that every company will benefit from hearing about.

Execution - The Discipline of Getting Things Done

For many leaders, creating a strategy is the easy part. Making it happen is the bigger challenge. Why is flawless execution so hard to achieve? Because few leaders understand what it requires. This presentation shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job. Ram explores what "execution" really means, and how it brings together the critical elements of any organization - its people, strategies, and operations. Execution takes personal discipline, and more important, a systematic approach to synchronizing the moving parts of the organization. Based on the best selling and highly praised book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done this is practical, insightful, leading-edge business thinking for organizations that want to do things differently.

Confronting Reality - Doing What Matters To Get Things Right

The fundamentals of how a business makes money are being rapidly and permanently altered by sweeping structural changes. With his extraordinary depth and breadth of experience, Ram Charan is the ideal guide for everyone - entrepreneur, mid-level manager, or CEO - about what is to be done so you can get things right in this challenging, radically changed world. He starts by showing you how to understand the most fundamental element of any business: whether you can realistically make the money you hope to in the game you're playing. He then shows how to use the business model to develop a robust, reality-based process for thinking about the specifics of your business in a holistic way. He shows how to tie together the financial targets you must meet, the external realities you face, and internal activities such as strategy development, operating tactics, and selection and development of people.

Growth

Especially in a slow economy, growth can seem impossible to achieve. But growth opportunities almost always exist. What is needed is a disciplined approach to identify, pursue, and fund them. Based on Ram's two books on growth, Every Business Is A Growth Business and Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 9 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning, this presentation will stimulate new ideas and explore new terrain in the quest to find new markets, new customers and new business opportunities.

Corporate Governance

Sarbanes-Oxley and the NYSE guidelines can go only so far. Boards must go beyond compliance to ensure that they are focusing on the substance of corporate governance: providing oversight and adding value. Designed for those involved in corporate governance, this session is practical and down to earth. Based on Boards at Work and The New Board and informed by working with some of the country's best boards, it shows how any board can be among the best.