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Ram Charan
Coach to The World’s Leading CEO’s and a favorite among executive educators
Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker and author. Ram Charan has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs. For 35 years, Ram Charan has worked behind the scenes at companies like GE, DuPont, Novartis, Pharmacia, Warner Lambert, Duke Energy, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, Smith-Kline and Verizon.
Ram Charan is a favorite among executive educators. He won the Bell Ringer (best teacher) award at GE's famous Crotonville Institute. Ram Charan won the Best Teacher Award at Wharton and Northwestern. He was among Business Week's top ten resources for in-house executive development programs. Ram Charan is a well-known author, whose books include Execution, written with Larry Bossidy, the former CEO of Honeywell.
Ram started his business career as a teenager working in the family shoe shop in
Ram is a favorite among executive educators. He won the Bell Ringer (best teacher) award at GE's famous Crotonville Institute. He won similar awards at Wharton and Northwestern. He was among Business Week's top ten resources for in-house executive development programs.
Ram Charan is the author of a number of highly influential books, including Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right and Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Execution (written with Larry Bossidy, the former CEO of Honeywell) reached number one on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list, and was on the New York Times' bestseller list for more than fifty weeks. Ram's other books include What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards at Work, Every Business Is a Growth Business and Profitable Growth. He also tailors his books for specific client companies such as Gateway, Ford, and EDS.
His articles have been published in some of the most important business publications in the world, including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Time, Information Week, Leader to Leader, Director's Monthly, Directorship, The Corporate Board and USA Today.
Ram is a director of Austin Industries and The Six Sigma Academy. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He serves as a co-host for the Fortune Forum on Corporate Governance and also serves on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance.
An engaging, dynamic and lively presenter, Ram's high energy keynotes and workshops offer cutting edge insights into such key topics as leadership, innovation, execution, and global strategy.
What does Ram Charan talk 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 the Ram's presenter'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.
What you can learn:
- Why flawless execution is so difficult
- How to bridge the gap between expectations and actual results
- How to bring together people, strategy, and operations
- The three key processes to execute effectively
- Developing a systems approach to synchronize the moving parts of an organization: How to align multiple priorities and reallocate resources accordingly
- How companies like Wal-Mart, GE, and Dell used execution to beat the competition.
Book Ram Charan
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