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6 New Rules for the Digital Age

Leading Blog

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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How To Hire The Right People And Set Them Up For Success

Eric Jacobson

In the new book, Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier , you’ll discover how seven companies from around the world reinvented the talent management process to become better functioning companies and talent engines that drive impressive growth. Question: What are the most important things to look for in a candidate when selecting a CEO?

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2019

Leading Blog

The Amazon Management System : The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. Redman went on to launch two successful companies and speaks all over the country on how to build better leaders through his Overcome mindset.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them.

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

Harvard Business Review

Ram Charans recommendation is wrong. The Split HR column alludes to cross-pollination between HR and Finance, but tucking HR into the Finance function, as Charan suggests, is not the way. Lets be clear. While he may be wrong, he may also be as wise as Solomon.

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How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour

Eric Jacobson

Priorities And, Calhoon teaches how to write a plan that will engage employees and develop leadership capacity. Now there is a book which makes the growth planning process simple and practical,&# said Stephen Linnemann, VP at Burns & McDonnell Engineering. The plan will include six essential elements : 1.Vision Objectives 5.Strategies