Know-How
The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform
From Those Who Don’t

Know-How is the latest book by Ram Charan, and just like his prior works this is another must read.

Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't was written to address head-on one of the most common issues within the ranks of management.

How many times have you been in a meeting and listened to a leader who delivers an important speech; listing very clearly his expectations for results and a very specific timeline for completion of a task – yet his words end of being nothing more than mere words? Results are replaced by nothing more than rhetoric and hot air!

Charan’s insights take you into the heart of effective leadership. He provides the reader with eight essential skills that are needed for success in the new century. Know-How takes you step-by-step through these 8 essential skills.

These 8 essential skills include the following:

1. Positioning and Repositioning the business
2. Pinpointing External Change
3. Leading The Social System
4. Judging People
5. Molding A Team
6. Setting Goals
7. Setting Laser-Sharp Priorities
8. Dealing With Forces Beyond The Market

One of the most interesting insights to Charan’s book is how he explains how there are personal traits that can both help or interfere with the 8 essential know-how skills.

Charan explains how ambition, drive and tenacity, self-confidence, psychological openness, realism, and an appetite for learning can all have a positive or negative impact on one’s ability to lead and drive results.

Chapter Eight is wonderfully crafted and carries high expectations in the title, “It’s Monday Morning – Now What?”

This chapter focuses squarely on how important it is for managers to set laser-sharp priorities for the team, and to ensure that team members are empowered to not allow outside activities get in the way of these dominant objectives.

As Charan puts it, “Priorities are the pathway for accomplishing goals. They provide the road map that organizes and directs the business toward it’s goals.”

Setting the right priorities and establishing a solid infrastructure that secures and protects those same goals, is an essential piece to the success puzzle.

Experts agree that Dr. Charan is well known and respected for providing advice that is down-to-earth and relevant and that takes into account the real-world complexities of business.

We encourage our readers to add this book to their personal leadership library.

For more information and Ram Charan and his latest book, Know-How, visit http://www.ram-charan.com.

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