Audiobooks by Ram Charan

Leadership Pipeline: Developing Leaders in the Digital Age, 3rd Edition

In the newly revised third edition of The Leadership Pipeline, a team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analyzing the results of your efforts. The work to be done, the required skills, time application, and the necessary work values for each leadership layer are clearly defined for the digital age. The book explains how to integrate your organization's leadership development process with a succession plan that provides your company with a ready supply of capable leaders. You'll discover the tools and techniques you need to knit together your succession and leadership development programs and constantly renew your leadership pipeline. You'll also: explore anecdotes and stories drawn from the authors' extensive experience with top companies that illustrate the principles discussed in the book; find ways to eliminate bias and tunnel vision when identifying leadership candidates; and learn to objectively consider the efficacy of individual leadership candidates. A powerful resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders at firms of all sizes, The Leadership Pipeline is an effective and insightful blueprint to future-proofing your company.

James Noel, Kent Jonasen, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter (Author), Lee Goettl (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions

Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers-and how to make better ones. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on decision making, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps. Leading experts such as Ram Charan, Michael Mankins, and Thomas Davenport provide the insights and advice you need to: make bold decisions that challenge the status quo; support your decisions with diverse data; evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor; check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning; test your decisions with experiments; foster and address constructive criticism; and defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability.

Daniel Kahneman, Harvard Business Review, Ram Charan (Author), James Edward Thomas (Narrator)

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Digital Simplified: Digital business enables growth, speed, & innovation—Digital transformation crea

'As a technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Raj Vattikuti has the ideal background to outline the steps of creating a Digital Strategy. Ram Charan is one of the world's most influential consultants who brings deep business insight and understanding of digital business. Together Raj and Ram explain the benefits and pitfalls of various approaches and why standing still means failure. This book explains how a digital business thinks, operates with agility, develops deeper customer relationships, and appropriately uses technology. It also emphasizes that developing a Digital Strategy is an ongoing process to sustain a competitive advantage and provides a template to help business compete in a digital economy. This book offers a practical perspective from decades of partnering with various businesses across many sectors and outlines how to create value for your customers and business.' Jacques Nasser AC 'Raj Vattikuti and Ram Charan have seen what so many others have missed- that real digital transformation starts and ends with the business. The central lessons of their book are what every leader needs to hear: Give digital ownership to the business. Take an agile, iterative approach to investment. Design an innovation process based on experimentation. Push for speed and build digital products in weeks, not years. Shift the culture to empower employees, collaborate across silos, and focus on outcomes. This is how digital transformation delivers lasting growth. If you are leading a legacy business today, you cannot afford anything less!' David L. Rogers, global bestselling author of 'The Digital Transformation Playbook'

Raj Vattikuti, Ram Charan (Author), Chris Brinkly (Narrator)

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The Digital Leader: Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth, 1st Edition

In The Digital Leader: Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth, a team of visionary entrepreneurs delivers an authoritative and engaging roadmap demonstrating how to digitalize your business by taking small, achievable steps that yield measurable, near-term results. In this handbook of concrete strategies and methods, the authors show you how to pinpoint and implement bite-sized projects that sync up with your business priorities. You'll learn how to find and choose between the digital enablement options available to you while discovering the tools you need to explain their value to stakeholders and get much-needed buy-in from executives, managers, and employees. You'll also: learn about the value of experimentation, continuous innovation, and how to generate dramatic transformation by using incremental changes to your advantage; find out how to digitalize one piece of your business at a time, instead of taking on a gargantuan transformation all at once that is destined for failure; and discover how to straddle the technology and business worlds and help define each of them to the other. A can't-miss resource for executives, managers, and other business leaders, The Digital Leader also belongs in the bookshelves of IT and data professionals seeking to maximize their impact on the businesses around them.

Raj B. Vattikuti, Ram Charan (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: Managing in a Downturn

In Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty, business advisor Ram Charan describes steps you can take right now to steer your organization away from the pitfalls and position it for a new future. You'll find practical techniques that will help you cope with: cash and credit crunches, shrinking budgets, collapsing markets, sinking workforce morale, disappearing suppliers, and nervous stakeholders. Great business thinkers like Ram Charan see opportunity in chaos. His innovative, commonsense way of approaching problems has made him one of the world's most sought-after consultants. Here, he provides help to leaders at every level, from the CEO and country managers to department heads in finance, marketing, sales, and manufacturing. Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty offers clear guidelines for seizing opportunity and persevering in today's global economy. Fight your fear and anxiety-and take your leadership to the next level, now.

Ram Charan (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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Harsh Realities: The Making of Marico

Breaking away from the shackles of family-run Bombay Oils Industries Ltd, Harsh Mariwala founded Marico in 1987. Today, the homegrown Marico is a leading international FMCG giant which recorded an annual turnover of over Rs 8000 crore last year. Their products, like Parachute, Nihar Naturals, Saffola, Set Wet, Livon and Mediker, are market leaders in their categories. This is the story of grit, gumption and growth, and of the core values of trust, transparency and innovation which have brought the company to its current stature. Co-authored by leading management thinker and guru Ram Charan, Harsh Realities is a much-awaited business book by an innovative and clear-headed leader who built a highly professional, competitive business from the ground up.

Harsh Mariwala, Ram Charan (Author), Shernaz Patel (Narrator)

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Repensar la ventaja competitiva: Nuevas reglas para la era digital

Descubre el secreto detrás de las compañías líderes en el mundo y aprende cómo competir contra ellas. En el mundo actual de los negocios, una buena estrategia no sólo consiste en mantener la cuota de mercado o construir trincheras para refugiarse de los competidores. En la era digital, las compañías más exitosas tienen un nuevo enfoque: reimaginar la experiencia del cliente interno y externo, crear oportunidades con crecimiento exponencial en el mercado, alcanzar la máxima eficiencia en sus cadenas de suministros y construir una ventaja competitiva a partir de plataformas, data y modelos de negocio tipo ecosistema. En esta animada y accesible guía, Ram Charan, disecciona la naturaleza cambiante de la ventaja competitiva en la era digital, muestra cómo se manifiesta en las grandes empresas que dominan los mercados y comparte insights valiosos para los emprendedores que buscan competir contra gigantes como Amazon, Netflix, Alibabá y Google. era digital; empresas pequeñas medianas grandes; estrategia de negocio; planificación estratégica; solución de problemas; herramientas digitales; análisis; gigantes de la tecnología; marcas más importantes; ecosistema empresarial; mundo de los negocios; El arte de la ejecución en los negocios; Larry Bossidy; Bezonomics; inteligencia artificial; big data; socios estratégicos; experiencia de usuario; cómo mejorar la experiencia del cliente; obsesión por el cliente; algoritmos; [Críticas/Reseñas]

Ram Charan (Author), Rafa Serrano (Narrator)

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Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent-and HR Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where 'lines and boxes' still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid-and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about sensing and seizing new opportunities and adapting to a constantly changing environment-companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. Turning conventional views on their heads, talent and leadership experts Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey provide leaders with a new and different playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent-for today's agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven strategic environment-and for creating the HR function that business needs. Filled with examples of forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent (such as ADP, Amgen, BlackRock, Blackstone, Haier, ING, Marsh, Tata Communications, Telenor, and Volvo), as well as the juggernauts and the startups of Silicon Valley, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor that they apply to financial capital to their human capital-elevating HR to the same level as finance in their organizations.

Dennis Carey, Dominic Barton, Ram Charan (Author), Mike Lenz (Narrator)

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Talent, Strategy, Risk: How Investors and Boards Are Redefining TSR

A playbook for long-term value creation Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors, passive investors don't have power to exit the fund) own almost 60 percent of the Fortune 500-and they have found their voice. Perhaps best exemplified by BlackRock's Larry Fink, these investors are stating in no uncertain terms that simply managing for short-term shareholder profit is not acceptable. In this agenda-setting book, three leaders who have been on the front lines of these changes with boards, management teams, and the investment community challenge leaders to rethink TSR (total shareholder return). Since TSR cannot keep the short and long term in balance, McNabb, Charan, and Carey argue that boards should focus on a different kind of TSR-talent, strategy, and risk-because decisions and actions around these factors, more than any others, determine whether or not a company creates long-term value.

Bill Mcnabb, Dennis Carey, Ram Charan (Author), Steve Menasche (Narrator)

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The Phoenix Encounter Method: Lead Like Your Business Is on Fire!

The business landscape is littered with the wreckage of companies that crashed and burned when an apocalypse came-in the shape of new competitive technologies, upstart entrants, demographic shifts, and new world orders. Who can feel safe in firestorm change? The authors of The Phoenix Encounter Method don't advise safety. In fact, their method of leadership thinking requires you to imagine burning your business to the ground-throwing yourself into a firestorm change-and turning the upheaval to your organization's advantage. It can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes, stronger and more powerful than ever. Written with a sense of urgency and purposefully radical provocation, The Phoenix Encounter Method represents the forward thinking of legendary business guru Ram Charan and professors from the senior global leadership program of INSEAD, one of the world's top graduate business schools. The resulting methodology, based on analysis of thousands of articles, studies, reports, and academic and business practice, was field tested in real-life Phoenix Encounters conducted with more than fifteen hundred senior executives-from startups and family businesses to legacy companies-representing a broad range of industry and sectors in both developed and developing economies.

Ian C. Woodward, Ram Charan, Sameer Hasija, V. 'paddy' Padmanabhan (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator)

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Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age

Brought to you by Penguin. From the million-copy-bestselling author of Execution Welcome to the age of big tech. The old rules no longer apply. How do companies get ahead in the digital age? In this lively, accessible guide, Ram Charan - bestselling author and advisor to some of the world's top CEOs - reveals that the tech giants have radically rewritten the rules of business. If you want to be competitive, you need to learn to play a new game. Drawing on behind-the-scenes stories from the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Alibaba, Charan sketches out a map of today's business landscape. He shows that the biggest companies succeed because they adhere to a simple rule: pick a single customer experience, then build a platform that transforms it from start to finish. It's a principle that has already revolutionised how the world watches movies (Netflix), goes shopping (Amazon) and browses the internet (Google). But this approach needn't be the preserve of Silicon Valley. By studying the tech giants' methods, Charan has uncovered the eight principles that any company can use to tap into their ecosystems: from homing in obsessively on individual customers' experiences, to using big data to inform every decision, to forging an ambitious culture among employees. And he offers a practical toolbox for implementing these lessons in your business, starting today. Whether you're a C-suite executive or a fledgling entrepreneur, your company can beat the competition in the era of big tech. This book will show you how. 'The most influential consultant alive.' Fortune © Ram Charan 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Ram Charan (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator)

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El líder de alto potencial (The High-Potential Leader): Cómo crecer rápidamente, asumir nuevas respo

Set your sights on High-Potential leadership and help your organization thrive In today's tumultuous and rapidly evolving business environment, High-Potential leaders are in high demand. Do you possess the relationship skills, strategic vision, innovation, and determination needed to thrive as a high-potential leader in your organization? New York Times bestselling author Ram Charan answers that question and helps you hop on the fast-track to leadership success in this insightful guide. Traditionally, leaders have risen up through the ranks based on their cognitive abilities, analytical skills, thoroughness, and even perfectionist tendencies, but as modern businesses have moved to a more digitally-driven model, the criteria for leaders has markedly changed. The High-Potential Leader explains the modern business climate while highlighting the critical role relationship building, communication style, engagement, and ability to motivate and bring out the best performance in others play in becoming an impactful leader. Whether you're just embarking on your leadership journey or are ready to make the leap to the next leadership level, Charan's real-world lessons and practical advice will help you discover who you are as a leader, chart your path, accelerate your growth, and ultimately, become the high-potential leader your organization needs to succeed

Betty Trabal, Geri Willigan, Ram Charan (Author), Javier Ponton (Narrator)

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