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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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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2018

Leading Blog

Talent Wins : The New Playbook for Putting People First by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey. Meltdown : Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield and Andras Tilcsik. The Essentials of Theory U : Core Principles and Applications by C. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaeufer.

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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. Their management system, and it can do the same for you no matter what business you are in or what level. What has propelled their record streak of growth?

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The Talent Masters: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers Bill Conaty and Ram Charan Crown Business (2010) How to develop “robust talent pipelines and same-day succession plans” I agree with Bill Conaty and Ram Charan that Steve Jobs is the archetypical “talent master.”

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7 Guiding Principles for Developing Leadership Talent

Leading Blog

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. Your talent assessment/development systems should have as much “rigor and repeatability as systems used for finance and operations.” People deliver numbers.

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The Leadership Pipeline

CEO Blog

The Leadership Pipeline - How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan , Steve Drotter and Jim Noel was awesome. I like Ram Charans books. Last year I worked hard on systems and processes. This is great for stimulating thought but may cause an intermingling of thought on my book reviews. He is a clear thinker.

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. Goals need to be set at a high level and then cascaded throughout the organization with a performance management system in place to achieve those goals. There’s a progression of passages, or at least there should be.

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