In this ground-breaking new book, Ram Charan, co-author of the bestselling "Execution", redefines leadership by focusing on eight specific practical skills that, if mastered, are guaranteed to bring success. Those skills are:
- Positioning: formulating a clear central idea that chimes with your customers’ desires and allows the business to be profitable;
- Detecting patterns: recognising key variables that may create barriers to growth;
- Managing the social system: influencing the workplace environment so that people can pull together and make the right decisions at the right time;
- Selecting (and deselecting) people: spotting talent, and making the change when the fit isn’t right;
- Leading your management team: trusting, and inspiring, an effective team of managers;
- Setting goals: deciding what the business can achieve;
- Setting priorities: assessing the actions that need to be taken in order to meet your goals; and,
- Dealing with external parties: making sure that outside power groups beyond your control do not affect your business unduly.
(text cited from http://webcat.london.edu)