Game Changer by A G Lafley And Ram Charan
How you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job. Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; significantly improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins; and averaged earnings per share growth of 12 percent. How? A. G. Lafley and his leadership team have integrated innovation into everything P&G does and created new customers and new markets. Through eye-opening stories A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan show how P&G and companies such as Honeywell, Nokia, LEGO, GE, HP, and DuPont have become game-changers. Their inspiring lessons can help you learn how to: - Make consumers and customers the boss, not the CEO or the management team- Innovate to grow a mature business
- Develop higher growth, higher margin businesses
- Create new customers and new markets
- Revitalize a business model
- Reach outside your own business and tap into the abundant brainpower and creativity of the world
- Integrate innovation into the mainstream of your managerial decision making
- Manage risk
- Become a leader of innovation We live in a world of unprecedented change, increasing global competitiveness, and the very real threat of commoditization. Innovation in this world is the best way to win--arguably the only way to really win. Innovation is not a separate, discrete activity but the job of everyone in a leadership position and the integral, central driving force for any business that wants to grow organically and succeed on a sustained basis. This is a game-changing book that helps you redefine your leadership and improve your management game.
Ram Charan is a sought-after advisor to CEOs and top executives at GE, Ford, DuPont, EDS, Universal Studios, and Verizon, among others. He is the coauthor of Every Business Is a Growth Business and E-Board Strategy, as well as the author of Boards That Work. Dr. Charan holds a D.B.A. and an M.B.A. and has written numerous papers for Harvard Business Review and other publications, including the Fortune cover story Why CEOs Fail. He holds a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and has taught at both Harvard and Northwestern. He was recently named a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and awarded the best instructor award at Northwestern's Kellogg School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307381736 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307381730 |
| Title | Game Changer |
| Author | A G Lafley And Ram Charan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2008-04-08 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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