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Ram Charan took his first business lessons while working in his family' shoe-shop in India. Describing that experience, he writes:
He has identified eight fundamental skills needed to succeed as a leader:
Constant vigilance about cash aligns your mind to
KNOW WHAT customers buy,
WHY they but from you, and
WHAT TO DO when things don't sell.
He has identified eight fundamental skills needed to succeed as a leader:
- Positioning (and when necessary, repositioning) your business by zeroing in on the central idea that meets customer needs and makes money
- Connecting the dots by pinpointing patterns of external change ahead of others
- Shaping the way people work together by leading the social system of your business
- Judging people by getting to the truth of a person
- 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
- 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
- Setting laser-sharp priorities that become the road map for meeting your goals
- Dealing creatively and positively with societal pressures that go beyond the economic value creation activities of your business
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Goals are set at fifty thousand feet. Priorities are set at ground level where you must have the tenacity, attitude and willingness to probe the messy details to think through and define WHAT the most important actions should be and what their second- and third-order consequences will be.
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Book: Supply Chain Management - Concept and Cases
Author: Rahul V. Altekar, Senior Functional Architect (SCM Solutions), Manugistics Ltd.
Publisher: Prenctice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.
This is a Text Book style prose on Supply Chain Management with many case studies including India-specific cases like ICI Paints, Marico Industries, Godrej and Boyce, and Sulzer India.
It manages to cover a wide-range of useful topics like Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR), Lean Manufacturing, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Logistics Management and SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference).
His other titles include Enterprisewide Resource Planning: Theory & Practice and Production Management.
Book: Study Smart Score High, An innovative guide to learning effectively and staying ahead
Author : Cedric M. Kenny
Publisher: Sterling Publishers
Event: Book Launch, Reading and an interactive discussion with the author on Effective Parenting Skills
Date: September 13 2008 Time: 7:30pm
Location: EPICENTRE
At Apparel House, Sector 44, Gurgaon
Tel: 91 124 2715000
Book: Art of the Start, the Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Author: Guy Kawasaki, Venture Capitalist (Garage Technology Ventures) and a columnist
How to create a Great Startup?
In Chapter 1, The Art of Starting, he starts off by listing five important things an entrepreneur must accomplish.
1. Make Meaning
2. Make Mantra
3. Get Going
4. Define your Business Model
5. Weave a MAT - Milestones, Assumptions & Tasks
Next, he takes us through 9 critical pieces of a Startup Jigsaw Puzzle:
Chapter 2, The Art of Positioning (…see The “So, What?” technique of Pitching)
Chapter 3, The Art of Pitching (…Telescope or Microscope? GET TO 1000 FEET AND STAY THERE…)
Chapter 4, The Art of Writing a Business Plan
Chapter 5,The Art of Bootstrapping
Chapter 6, The Art of Recruiting
Chapter 7, The Art of Raising Capital
Chapter 8, The Art of Partnering
Chapter 9, The Art of Branding
Chapter 10,The Art of Rainmaking (..SEE THE GORILLA…)
A special Chapter 11, The Art of Being a Mensch, talks about Being a Mensch - Yiddish term for a person who is ethical, decent, and admirable.
Guy Kawasaki says if you want to build a truly great, lasting organization, you need to set the highest moral and ethical standards for employees.
The three foundations of menschhood are helping lots of people, doing what’s right, and paying back society.
Book: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader, hedge fund manager, mathematics professor, and a philosopher of randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb does a great job of elaborating on an important truth of life - “You dont know that you dont know”! If you wish to know whether you (or people around you) are smart or simply lucky, this book can help you!
His takes pleasure in ” teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know….”
Read an exerpt here.
