Ram Charan is a highly sought after business advisor and speaker, famous among senior executives for his uncanny ability to solve their toughest business problems. For more than thirty-five years, Dr. Charan has worked behind the scenes with top executives at some of the world's most successful companies, including GE, Verizon, Novartis, Dupont, Thomson Corporation, Honeywell, KLM, Bank of America, and MeadWestvaco. Ram Charan has shared his insights with many others through his teaching and writing.
Dr. Charan's introduction to business came early while working in the family shoe shop in the small Indian town where he was raised. He earned an engineering degree in India and soon after took a job in Australia and then in Hawaii. When his talent for business was discovered, Dr. Charan was encouraged to pursue it. Ram Charan earned MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with high distinction and was a Baker Scholar. After receiving his doctorate degree, Dr. Charan served on the Harvard Business School faculty.
Ram Charan is well known for providing advice that is down-to-earth and relevant and that takes into account the real-world complexities of business. Among Dr. Charan's recommendations for achieving profitable growth, for example, is to produce "singles and doubles" as well as home-runs and to develop what he calls a "growth budget" to instill discipline on growth initiatives. Identified by Fortune as the leading expert in corporate governance, Ram Charan is helping boards go beyond the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and the New York Stock Exchange by providing practical ways to improve their group dynamics. Boards, CEOs, and senior-most human resource executives often seek Dr. Charan's advice on talent planning and key hires.
Many people have come to know Ram Charan through in-house executive education programs. His energetic, interactive teaching style has won him several awards. Ram Charan won the "Bell Ringer" award at GE's famous Crotonville Institute and "Best Teacher" award at Northwestern. Dr. Charan was also among BusinessWeek's top ten resources for in-house executive development programs.
Over the past decade, Ram Charan has captured his business insights in numerous books and articles. In the past five years, Dr. Charan's books have sold more than 2 million copies. These include the bestseller Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done and Confronting Reality, both co-authored with Larry Bossidy, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards at Work, Every Business Is a Growth Business, Profitable Growth and Boards That Deliver. A frequent contributor to Fortune, Dr. Charan has written two cover stories, "Why CEOs Fail" and "Why Companies Fail." His other articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Director's Monthly, andStrategy, and Business.
Ram Charan has served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance and was elected a "Distinguished Fellow" of the National Academy of Human Resources. Ram Charan is also on the board of Austin Industries and Tyco Electronics. Dr. Charan is based in Dallas, TX.
Ram Charan is a highly sought after business advisor and speaker, famous among senior executives for his uncanny ability to solve their toughest business problems. For more than thirty-five years, Dr. Charan has worked behind the scenes with top executives at some of the world's most successful companies, including GE, Verizon, Novartis, Dupont, Thomson Corporation, Honeywell, KLM, Bank of America, and MeadWestvaco. Ram Charan has shared his insights with many others through his teaching and writing.
Dr. Charan's introduction to business came early while working in the family shoe shop in the small Indian town where he was raised. He earned an engineering degree in India and soon after took a job in Australia and then in Hawaii. When his talent for business was discovered, Dr. Charan was encouraged to pursue it. Ram Charan earned MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with high distinction and was a Baker Scholar. After receiving his doctorate degree, Dr. Charan served on the Harvard Business School faculty.
Ram Charan is well known for providing advice that is down-to-earth and relevant and that takes into account the real-world complexities of business. Among Dr. Charan's recommendations for achieving profitable growth, for example, is to produce "singles and doubles" as well as home-runs and to develop what he calls a "growth budget" to instill discipline on growth initiatives. Identified by Fortune as the leading expert in corporate governance, Ram Charan is helping boards go beyond the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and the New York Stock Exchange by providing practical ways to improve their group dynamics. Boards, CEOs, and senior-most human resource executives often seek Dr. Charan's advice on talent planning and key hires.
Many people have come to know Ram Charan through in-house executive education programs. His energetic, interactive teaching style has won him several awards. Ram Charan won the "Bell Ringer" award at GE's famous Crotonville Institute and "Best Teacher" award at Northwestern. Dr. Charan was also among BusinessWeek's top ten resources for in-house executive development programs.
Over the past decade, Ram Charan has captured his business insights in numerous books and articles. In the past five years, Dr. Charan's books have sold more than 2 million copies. These include the bestseller Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done and Confronting Reality, both co-authored with Larry Bossidy, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards at Work, Every Business Is a Growth Business, Profitable Growth and Boards That Deliver. A frequent contributor to Fortune, Dr. Charan has written two cover stories, "Why CEOs Fail" and "Why Companies Fail." His other articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Director's Monthly, andStrategy, and Business.
Ram Charan has served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance and was elected a "Distinguished Fellow" of the National Academy of Human Resources. Ram Charan is also on the board of Austin Industries and Tyco Electronics. Dr. Charan is based in Dallas, TX.
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The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't
How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air? All too often we mistake the appearance of leadership for the real deal. Without a doubt, intelligence, vision, and the ability to communicate are important. But something big is missing: the know-how of running a business - the capacity to take it in the right...
Execution - The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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...
Confronting Reality - Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
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...
Growth
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...
Corporate Governance
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.
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Tektronix Inc.
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J.M., Chairman and CEO, Tektronix Inc.
Ram Charan's valuable views and opinions come from years of consulting with some of America's best-known and most successful chairmen and CEOs, who also share their direct insights on the most controversial of topics.
Vivendi Universal Entertainment
On-Site
R.M., President and COO, Vivendi Universal Entertainment
Ram Charan's depth of experience and leadership in the area of business management is unrivaled.
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