8 Skills That Separate Leaders Who Perform from Those Who Don’t

Ram Charan co-author of the popular book “Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done” which I previously reviewed here, has just released a new book on leadership titled “Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t“. Ram Charan’s insight into the real content of leadership provides you with the eight fundamental skills needed for success in the twenty-first century:

1. Positioning (and when necessary, repositioning) your business by zeroing in on the central idea that meets customer needs and makes money.
2. Connecting the dots by pinpointing patterns of external change ahead of others.
3. Shaping the way people work together by leading the social system of your business.
4. Judging people by getting to the truth of a person.
5. Molding high-energy, high-powered, high-ego people into a working team of leaders in which they equal more than the sum of their parts.
6. Knowing the destination where you want to take your business by developing goals that balance what the business can become with what it can realistically achieve.
7. Setting laser-sharp priorities that become the road map for meeting your goals.
8. Dealing creatively and positively with societal pressures that go beyond the economic value creation activities of your business.

Know-How is the missing link of leadership. By Showing how the eight know-hows link to, interact with, and reinforce personal and psychological traits, Ram Charan provides a holistic and innovative portrait of successful leaders of the twenty-first century.

Sounds like another interesting read from Ram Charan.

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