Ram Charan

What Defines a Successful Organization?

October 17, 2022

Here is an excerpt from another brilliant article written by Ram Charan for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture

May 31, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2019) Begin at the end: First determine WHAT and WHY, then WHO and HOW. After centuries of war between…

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Playing to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

March 27, 2022

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Note: I reviewed this book when it was first published and…

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Talent: A book review by Bob Morris

January 29, 2022

Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier Anish Batlaw and Ram Charan Ideapress Publishing (January 2022) How and why strategic talent management drives exceptional value creation  Here’s this book’s basic concept: Ram Charan and Anish Batlaw examine “a methodology and practice that…

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Rethinking Competitive Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

January 20, 2022

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age Ram Charan and Geri Willigan Currency (April 2021) “Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein With substantial assistance from Geri Willigan, Ram Charan…

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Playing to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

April 17, 2021

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Note: I reviewed this book when it was first published and…

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Rethinking Competitive Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

April 15, 2021

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age Ram Charan and Geri Willigan Currency (April 2021) “Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein With substantial assistance from Geri Willigan, Ram Charan…

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Invent & Wander: A book review by Bob Morris

November 28, 2020

Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos Harvard Business Review Press (November 2020) For this CEO, it will always be “Day 1” What we have in this volume is a collection of Jeff Bezos’ writings: shareholder…

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Why it is always Day 1 at Amazon

March 25, 2020

In Always Day One, Alex Kantrowitz explains that “Always Day One” is code at Amazon for “inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy…in today’s business world, where Day Two is death, it’s the key to survival.” Kantrowitz suggests…

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An agenda for the talent-first CEO

February 5, 2020

Here is an excerpt from Talent Wins, co-authored by Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey, and Ram Charan,  that was featured in an article for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn…

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