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Confronting Reality

Confronting Reality

Master the New Model for Success

Summary

The tectonic plates of business are shifting and the result is a new reality in what it takes to run a profitable, successful business. The authors of Execution show what it takes to muster the intellectual and personal courage to understand the fundamental issues at the core of your business and provide the tools for taking action. 'Confronting reality' is the ability to see the world the way it really is, not the way you would like it to be.

Confronting Reality provides the tools that will build the foundation for future prosperity and success:

How to focus on your external industry, not just your direct competitors

How to prepare a strategy that confronts reality

How to design rewards and link them to performance

How to reframe and reposition a business to ensure maximum success

Reviews

  • A great practitioner and an insightful theorist join forces to write a compelling business story of 'how to get it done'
    Jack Welch

About the authors

Larry Bossidy

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Ram Charan

'One of the world's most renowned management consultants and authors.' Fast Company

Widely acclaimed as one of our greatest business strategists, Ram Charan is the author of over a dozen books, including the perennial bestseller Execution. Formerly an award-winning professor at Harvard Business School, he has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies - including Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Tata, 3M, GE and Verizon.
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