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Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

Leading Blog

Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey write in Talent Wins : Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of talent, yet the talent practices in their organizations use are vestiges of another era. This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer).

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7 Guiding Principles for Developing Leadership Talent

Leading Blog

As a leader you need to know how to judge raw human talent. In The Talent Masters , Bill Conaty and Ram Charan explain how to do it. When you have an organization devoted to a person, you have a cult. When you have an organization devoted to a set of principles and values, you have a culture. People deliver numbers.

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Unless you are an heir to a throne, people usually don’t begin their careers leading a large organization. Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. Passage #5: Managing Organizations. Passage #6: Leading Organizations.

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It???s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It

Harvard Business Review

Ram Charans recommendation is wrong. CEOs and organization leaders who read only his column (or worse, only the title) and split HR as he suggests, will make a serious mistake that will destroy value for their shareholders and constituents. Lets be clear. While he may be wrong, he may also be as wise as Solomon.

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

One of mentees that worked with Naveen through the Founder Institute, Bangalore had a background in Human Resources. He had a concept he called “Experience Zones” that he believed would boost employee engagement in large organizations. Let us offer a story from the book to illustrate what we mean.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. They don’t know how key decisions are made, and they have great difficulty analyzing why people—or whole parts of the organization—aren’t meeting the business’s performance goals.“.

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Why Managers and HR Don’t Get Along

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever noticed how ambivalent line managers are about the Human Resources function? The bottom line, as Ram Charan argued in his recent HBR article , is that many line managers are disappointed in their HR people. Human resources' In some cases, an HR person specializes in just one of these roles (e.g.