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What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Worksby Ram Charan
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Have you ever noticed that the business savvy of the world's best CEOs seems like a kind of street smarts? They sense where the opportunities are and how to take advantage of them. And their companies make money consistently, year
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The universal laws of business success . . . no matter whether you are selling fruit from a stand or running a Fortune 500 company.
Have you ever noticed that the business savvy of the world's best CEOs seems like a kind of street smarts? They sense where the opportunities are and how to take advantage of them. And their companies make money consistently, year after year.
How different is it to run a big company than to sell fruit from a cart or run a small shop in a village? In essence, not very, according to Ram Charan. From his childhood in India, where he worked in his family's shoe shop, to his education at Harvard Business School and his daily work advising many of the world's best CEOs, Ram understands business as few can.
The best CEOs have a knack for bringing the most complex business down to the fundamentals -- the same fundamentals of the family shoe shop. They have business acumen -- the ability to focus on the basics and make money for the company.
What the CEO Wants You to Know captures these insights and explains in clear, simple language how to do what great CEOs do instinctively and persistently:
* Understand the basic building blocks of a business and use them to figure out how your company makes money and operates as a total business.
* Decide what to do, despite the clutter of day-to-day business and the complexity of the real world.
Many people spend more than a hundred thousand dollars on an MBA without learning to pull these pieces of the puzzle together. Many others lack a formal business education and feel shut out from the executive suite. What the CEO Wants You to Know takes the mystery out of business and shows the secrets of success used by business legends like Jack Welch of GE.
Editorial Reviews
— Jac Nasser, CEO and President, Ford Motor Company
"These ideas help simplify complexity and provide a lifetime of value. What the CEO Wants You to Know is a gem of a book."
— Larry Bossidy, former Chairman and CEO, AlliedSignal
"This is a book that's been needed for years. Ram Charan shares the secret to finding your way in the business world and making your career more meaningful."
— Chad Holliday, Chairman and CEO, Dupont
"Reading this book is like putting on a pair of glasses-suddenly the guts of the business are crystal clear."
— Dave Robino, Vice Chairman, Gateway Computer
"Finally, a book that shows how business really works."
— Bob Nardelli, President and CEO, GE Power Systems
"Business acumen-Ram Charan's term for using the universal laws of business — is the name of the game today."
— Lois D. Juliber, COO, Colgate-Palmolive
Product Details
- 9780609504239
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- The Crown Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 03/15/2001
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- Random House
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- NOOK Book
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- 404,984
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Chapter 1
What Jack Welch and Street Vendors Share
The Essence of Business Thinking
Chances are that sometime in your life you passed through a city or town where people were selling goods from tables and carts right there on the street. Anywhere you go in the world, you can find street vendors hawking their wares. In Chicago, Mexico City, São Paulo, Bombay, Barcelona, San Francisco, New York. Anywhere.
If you bought something, you probably made your purchase quickly and went on your way. It didn't occur to you to talk to the street vendors about business. After all, what they do is very simple. What could you possibly learn from them?
But if you did talk with street vendors about how they make a living, you would notice something surprising. No matter where they live, what they sell, or what culture they come from, they talk about-and think about-their business in remarkably similar ways. They speak a universal language of business. They practice a universal law of business.
Even more surprising is that the street vendor's language is the same as Jack Welch's language (he's the chief executive officer of General Electric Company, named the best manager of the century by Fortune magazine) and Michael Dell's language (you've heard of Dell Computer) and Jac Nasser's language (CEO of Ford). It's the same as Jorma Ollila's (CEO of the Finnish company Nokia) and Nobuyuki Idei's (CEO of Sony).
In other words, when it comes to running a business successfully, the street vendor and the CEOs of some of the world's largest and most successful companies talk and think very much alike. There are differences, of course, between running a huge corporation and a small shop, and we'll get to those, but the fundamentals, or basics, of business are the same. People like Jack Welch, Michael Dell, and Jac Nasser manage and lead large numbers of people in huge, global organizations. They are often referred to as managers or leaders, but they think of themselves as businesspeople first, not unlike street vendors.
I know because I've been permitted to observe some of these business leaders and others like them firsthand. For more than three decades, I have had the privilege of working one-on-one with some of the most successful business leaders in the world, including Larry Bossidy, formerly of AlliedSignal; Dick Brown of EDS; John Cleghorn of Royal Bank of Canada; Chad Holliday of DuPont; Jac Nasser of Ford; John Reed, formerly of Citigroup; and Jack Welch of GE. I have seen the way their minds work, the way they cut through the largest and most complex issues to the fundamentals of business.
I learned those fundamentals as a child growing up in a small agricultural town in northern India. There I watched my father and uncle struggle to make a living selling shoes from their small shop, a joint family enterprise. With no experience and no formal training, they competed head to head against others in the town who were also trying to eke out a living. My family learned, and over time they built a name brand and earned the trust of the local farmers, who were their customers. Other shops have come and gone, but ours has flourished, and my nephews continue to run the shop to this day.
That shoe shop paid for my education and allowed me to venture far beyond my roots. At the age of nineteen, with an engineering degree in hand, I took a job at a gas utility company in Sydney, Australia. The CEO discovered that I had a nose for business, and I soon found myself devising marketing plans and pricing strategies instead of designing pipeline networks. My interest in business proved to be irrepressible, and that CEO encouraged me to go to Harvard Business School, where I earned an MBA and a doctorate, and where I later taught. Since then, I have had the opportunity to advise dozens of CEOs around the world and to teach business to thousands more.
In my early days of consulting, as I worked with businesses of different sizes, in different industries and different cultures, I was struck by the similarities among successful business leaders. I saw that regardless of the size or type of business, a good CEO had a way of bringing the most complex business down to the fundamentals-the same fundamentals I learned in the family shoe shop.
My experiences over the past few decades have convinced me beyond doubt that the same universal principles, or laws, underlie every business, from the street vendor's business, to the shoe shop, to the businesses run from the executive suites of the Fortune 50. The most successful business leaders never lose sight of the basics. Their intense focus on the fundamentals of business is, in fact, the secret to their success. Like the street vendor, they have a keen sense of how a business makes money. This ability to apply the universal laws of business is what I call business acumen.
Remember Your Roots
Many successful CEOs have had experiences early in their lives similar to that of a street vendor, giving root to their business thinking. Jac Nasser of Ford first made his living in his family's small business. Think of the challenges a small business owner faces. He has to decide what customers to try to attract and how to draw them in, what items to provide and how to price them, what raw ingredients to buy and how much to pay for them, what kind of atmosphere to offer and how to create it, and he has to put in long, long hours. If he makes a profit, saves some money, and has the right people around him, he can grow the business. Every decision matters.
The family business is where Jac Nasser learned the universal language of business and first tested his business acumen. He now speaks the same language at Ford, the second-largest automotive company in the world.
Do you speak the universal language of business? Do you understand the fundamental laws that underlie every business? Do you have business acumen?
Chances are, you've built your career in one area of your company, such as sales, finance, or production. These areas, generally known as business functions, are sometimes also called chimneys or silos. That's because most people take their first job at a corporation in one business function and move up within that function as they get promoted. Thus it appears as if they're moving vertically through a chimney or silo.
Such career tracks tend to narrow your perspective and influence the decisions and trade-offs you make every day. What's best for your department or function is not necessarily best for the company as a whole. You may be a top-notch professional-good at marketing or engineering or financial analysis-but are you really a businessperson? Regardless of your job, department, or chimney, you need to develop your business acumen.
As you learn to see your company as a total business and make decisions that enhance its overall performance, you will help make meetings less bureaucratic, more focused on the business issues. Time will go quickly, as it does when discussions are constructive and energizing. You'll get more excited about your job because you'll see that your suggestions and decisions help the business grow and prosper. You'll have a greater sense of purpose, and your capacity will increase.
Developing your business acumen will make you feel rejuvenated, like when you were a kid having fun making money for the first time-or like Michael Dell, who instinctively focused on the right things and created tremendous value for shareholders. Fifteen years ago, he was running a mail-order computer business out of his college dorm room. In June 2000, Dell Computer was worth some $130 billion.
When you learn to speak the universal language of business, you can have meaningful discussions with anyone in the company, at any level. You'll tear down the walls that separate you, a functional chimney person, from those well-dressed senior executives and MBAs who speak a language you may not understand. You'll feel more connected to your company and your work. And the range of opportunities open to you will expand.
Use this book to learn the language of business. Then put the book aside and practice until the fundamentals of business become instinctive, as they are for the street vendor. You'll discover the common sense of business, and you'll be on your way to developing business acumen.
The Street Vendor's Skill
How does a street vendor hawking fruits and vegetables in a small Indian town make a living? Someone with a $75,000 education and an MBA might say "Anticipate demand." But the street vendor in India doesn't know the buzz words. He just has to figure out what to buy that morning-what quantity, what quality, and what assortment of fruits and vegetables-based on what he thinks he can sell that day (his sales forecast).
Then he has to figure out what prices to charge and be nimble enough to adjust prices as needed during the day. He doesn't want to carry the fruit (the inventory) home with him. If it begins to decay, it will be of
less value tomorrow. Another reason why the vendor doesn't want anything left over is that he needs the cash. All day long he has to weigh whether to cut prices, when to cut them, and by how much. If he is indecisive or makes a wrong trade-off, he may lose out.
It is no different in companies. Say the Federal Reserve (the Fed) increases interest rates. Demand for automobiles might suddenly drop, and automotive companies might not be able to adjust their production levels quickly enough. They might end up with more inventory than they need. It would then take heroic efforts to dispose of the inventory and collect the cash. That's when consumers would start seeing TV commercials telling them that one of the car companies is offering cash rebates. Rebates and increased spending on advertising hurt profits. Also, such selling approaches can begin to cheapen the image of the brand. Companies sometimes endure those negative effects because they need the cash.
Each morning, the street vendor sets up his cart. He puts the best-looking fruit in the front (retailers call this merchandising). He watches the competition-what they're selling and for how much. And the whole time, he's thinking about not just today but also tomorrow.
If he has trouble selling his produce, he might have to cut the price (increase the value to the customer) or rearrange the display or yell louder (advertise) to attract attention to his stand. Maybe tomorrow he'll find a better price at which to buy or he'll change the assortment of fruits and vegetables (the product mix). If something doesn't work, he adjusts.
How does he know if he's doing well? If he has cash in his pocket at the end of the day. Everyone understands cash, money in the pocket. Every language has a word for this. The street vendor constantly thinks about cash-does he have enough cash, how can he get more cash, will he continue to be able to generate cash?
What happens to the street vendor who doesn't have cash at the end of the day? It's misery all over. The tension in the family is almost unbearable. The wage earner loses face. And yes, it's true; in India, his family may not have enough to eat. Such circumstances put the mind into sharp focus. But whether the street vendor realizes it or not, his subconscious is pondering something deeper. How will he buy goods for the next day? He needs cash to stay in business.
So do companies. You hear all the time about companies that are strapped for cash. They may have produced too many things that didn't sell and the cash got absorbed in inventories. Or they invested money in a plant that's too big and the company can't generate enough money from it. Or the company sold its products on credit to distributors or retailers and got paid late or not at all. When companies can't generate enough cash, they often borrow it. If they borrow heavily and don't correct the problem that created the need in the first place, they have trouble repaying the loans. Some end up filing for bankruptcy, so-called Chapter 11.
Back to the street vendor. How vendors buy fruit varies from country to country. In India, when personal cash savings are hard to accumulate, the vendor may borrow cash to purchase fruit in order to make some more money. To make a living, he has to make enough money to pay back what he borrowed, with some left over.
Every time he sells a melon, he makes just a little bit of money. His profit, the difference between what he pays for the fruit and what he sells it for, is very low. His profit margin-the cash he gets to keep as a percentage of the total cash he takes in-is around 5 percent. (Different companies have different terminology for this basic idea. Some call it return on sales or operating margin. You need to know what it is called in your company. But what's important is the idea, which I'll explain more fully later.)
Let's say our street vendor borrows 400 rupees (Rs 400, which is about $10). He uses the money as a deposit on Rs 4,000 worth of fruit. The fruit is his only asset. If he sells all Rs 4,000 worth of fruit at a 2 percent profit margin (after deducting all expenses and his salary), he will make a profit of Rs 80. In other words, he used his Rs 400 asset to make Rs 80, so his return on assets is 20 percent.
Can the street vendor raise his prices to make more profit? Only so much. If his price is too high, his customers will go to another vendor. Can he find a way to pay less for the fruit? If he buys fruit that's overripe, his customers will know the difference. Maybe some kinds of fruit are more profitable than others. Should he sell only the most profitable ones?
In the automotive business in the early 1990s, Ford gained a decisive financial advantage over General Motors by changing its product mix ahead of the competition. Ford was quick to recognize the American consumer's increasing desire for sport utility vehicles and light trucks. While continuing to offer a full range of vehicles, Ford shifted some of its production from cars to SUVs and trucks, which are more profitable than cars. It won the leading market share in North America in these product areas, despite the fact that GM is bigger.
The street vendor has many realities to deal with. If he makes the wrong judgment repeatedly, he will find it hard to make a living. If he doesn't give his customers a fair deal, they will not return and he will develop a bad reputation. If, on the other hand, he gives people a good deal every time, he builds their trust and loyalty to his brand. He has to be consumer focused.
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Meet the Author
Ram Charan is a highly sought adviser to CEOs and senior executives in companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500, including GE, Ford, DuPont, EDS, Universal Studios, and Verizon. He is the author of Boards That Work and the coauthor of Every Business Is a Growth Business and E-Board Strategies. Dr. Charan has written numerous articles for Harvard Business Review and other publications, including the Fortune cover story "Why CEOs Fail."He has a D.B.A and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and has taught at Harvard and Northwestern. He won the best teacher award at Northwestern's Kellogg School and was recently elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources.
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An expert can deconstruct a business down to its basic driving forces to diagnose how it is working. Now, you can do the same - with this concise guide from author Ram Charan, who refers to the ability to work with operational essentials as 'business acumen.' He bases his initial ideas on his family¿s shoe business in India. This family-owned business fought hard for every sale, and each night the relatives discussed what had happened during the day, which goods customers bought and what the store¿s competitors were doing. When he left home to study and, eventually, to become an author and consultant to global companies, Charan remembered those hardscrabble lessons. Here, he distills the core similarities between street vendors and global corporations in what amounts to a narrated business dictionary. We believe this book will help you more deeply understand the vocabulary and ideas at the heart of business, and recommends its clear explanations of essential business concepts.
This book is a great little introduction to REAL economics- not the useless junk most often taught in schools- but the real economics that makes the world go-round. This book briefly tries to explain why it is important that everyone in a company understand this, but falls a little short. For more detail on this aspect, I strongly recommend the classic 'Open-Book Management' By John Case.
This book will also help you understand financial statements, particularly income statements. This comes in handy when looking at your company's public competitors or for analyzing investments.
A shock at every turn! I've worked for Microsoft and IBM and this book sheds light onto the inner workings of both. It seems that every company has a secret plan, one that can be discovered if you know where to look. I discovered how to 'read between the lines' as it were and 'look into my crystal ball'. All metaphores aside, my current employers really got the jiggs for a squishy, placenta we call the financial giant of America. After a meeting in the board room last winter I pulled the fire alarm and quickly made my way into the recesses of the building. Security was busy stuffing sandwiches into the air conditioning vents and as I snuck past, I noticed a green glow from beneath the storage chamber of the CEO himself. Sure enough, there he was, naked and floating in a status beam. Protected from any danger. As I reached up to switch off the power grid, several associate producers and a cheif financial officer burst forth and injected me with a special syrum they later reffered to as 'smart juice'. When I awoke, I rememberd none of what I have just told you. I will never reaveal the true nature of the industry and I will never suggest reading 'What the CEO Wants You To Know'. My lips are sealed.
, February 26, 2001 Dr. Charan has used his decades of experience with top CEOs to write a book that explains the overall concepts and focus of a successful business using simple metaphors. 'The best CEOs . . . are able to take the complexity and mystery out of business by focusing on the fundamentals.' 'And they make sure everone in the company . . . understands these fundamentals.' If you work in a small part of a large organization and don't understand how what you do contributes to the whole, this book will be a revelation to you. If you do not understand how business people think and would like to learn, this book will help you more than any five courses you could take. The book is organized into four parts. In part one, you learn the universal language of business though concepts like inventory, product mix, merchandising, pricing, return on assets, customer focus, product quality, cash generation, growth, and finding out what you need to change from customers. The primary metaphor used here is that of a street vendor who is selling fruit in India and cannot afford to have a bad day. Dr. Charan fleshes out the examples by referring to his family's shoe business, and to decisions taken by leading executives he has worked with (like Jack Welch of General Electric, Jac Nassar of Ford, and Dick Brown at EDS). In part two, he talks about how to use these concepts in the real world. His key point is to take the measurements and create a focus on 3 or 4 key activities that will make the most difference. He also relates this work to expanding the value of the company's share price. In part three, he turns his attention to getting key tasks done. This involves putting the right people in the right jobs, improving group effectiveness (usually by putting in place activities that provide more timely focus), and how to lead change. Dick Brown is the key example in this last area. In part four, you pay attention to what you need to do to aply these concepts to your own situation so you 'become a businessperson first' in your approach to everything. This part gives you help with assessing the whole business, cutting through complexity, providing focus, helping others expand their abilities and synchronize with their colleagues to be more effective, and being a leader (regardless of your role now). You are left then with this challenge: 'What are you going to do to help your company's money making in the next sixty to ninety days? The book is quite simple and can be read fairly quickly. I think that few will be confused by it. If you have questions, ask someone who has some business education to help you. The book's great strength is its simplicity. It takes business concepts and approaches down to the lowest common denominator. For many people, this will provide a great advance over doing what is best for the way you are measured in your part of the organization. But you will have to get those measurements changed if you want focus and behavior to improve in a lasting way. The book's weaknesses are in four areas. First, the street vendor and shoe company examples won't work for everyone. I suspect that a


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Militarized local police? Hard to find information
Militarization of local police departments has become a hot topic due to recent events in Ferguson, Mo., that has lead to a military response to demonstrators in Ferguson by local police forces.
The controversy stems from a federal policy called the 1033 Military Surplus Property Program. The 1033 program allows the Pentagon to send excess military equipment to states upon the requests of their county police departments.
According to the Georgia Department of Public Safety (GDPS) Georgia has received $200 million worth of military equipment since the birth of the 1033 program.
In light of these developments, the first thing that should naturally come to the mind of Fayette County citizens is if their police department is an active participant in the 1033 program.
To find an answer to this question most would think that you should be able contact the Fayette County Sheriff's Office and ask. Unfortunately doing so would likely result in an "I don't know" from whoever answers the phone.
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What is really concerning about this is that this shred of information hidden in the depths of the Fayette County budget is literally the only county document accessible to the public that ever alludes to the 1033 program.
In Fayette County, filling out an application for "open access" to public records at the police department is synonymous with writing down your email and a brief description of what your looking for in the hopes that someone will email it to you.
According to an email from Captain Charles R. Cowart of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department, "We have no 1033 documents on file." The story is the same at the Justice Center and County Administration offices; both claim to not have any accessible records on the sheriff's department's assets.
Fortunately, a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Times has produced an accessible online listing of all military equipment distributed to counties through the 1033 program. The list shows that Fayette County has received four military 5.56 millimeter rifles and one truck/tank worth almost $90,000.
Hopefully the sheriff's department finds some sort of documentation pertaining to the military equipment; at this point an instruction manual would suffice. Since public records on the 1033 program in Fayette County don't exist, it means that the applications that the department was obligated to submit in order to receive four military rifles and a tank aren't on county public records.
This completely eliminates any possibility of public oversight pertaining to participation in the 1033 program. What if the county needed more equipment for the safety of the public and the department wasn't adequately fulfilling its duty in applying for them? What if the department has applied for too much equipment and it became harmful to the public? Who answers then?
I don't think we should wait to see.
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Simon then worked for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he created tools and systems to support financial planning, life insurance, and stock broking needs for a range of clients. He was appointed as a Project Manager within a high-profile program established to respond to allegations of fraud, and developed a risk analytics solution that enabled internal auditors to identify high-risk client advisers.
Simon then pursued an opportunity to work on the Australian Government's National Broadband Network Initiative. The initiative sought to reform Australia's telecommunications industry by providing fast, affordable internet access to the country's residents, regardless of their location. During this post, Simon contributed to the development of financial information systems that handled over $12 billion in industry payments, helped design systems that overcame installation challenges, mentored teams of staff, and led the development of business cases.
Simon is also passionately committed to facilitating social entrepreneurship. In 2004, he established a charitable foundation that provides technological and management consulting services for the not-for-profit sector. Ten years after the foundation's conception, Simon's online service has helped over 2,500 organisations in 50 countries, with tasks such as volunteer development, online presence and fundraising. Eager to help as many organisations as possible, Simon began to explore methods for improving the foundation, and came to realise that its organisational model was a constraining factor. He decided to start a new foundation, called Golden Hint, which employs a distinctive client-to-client support model. The name is inspired by the belief that providing expert advice (hints) can prove pivotal (golden) in transforming ideas into results.
Simon was awarded a Bachelor of Information Technology with Distinction from the University of Technology, Sydney as a co-operative scholarship student. He went on to the University of Sydney Business School, completing a Master of Commerce with Merit, double majoring in Finance and Accounting. Simon's interest in wealth management led him to complete an Advanced Diploma in Financial Services (Financial Planning). Over the years, Simon has amassed a diverse mix of professional qualifications in fields ranging from project management to business analysis.
Whilst his career has been based in Australia, Simon has travelled extensively throughout Asia, and enjoyed occasional trips to Europe. He is looking forward to living in and exploring North America more extensively during his time at Harvard. Simon speaks Armenian fluently and in his spare time he enjoys fine arts and collecting computer gadgets.


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Edmund Christopher Pery, 7th Earl of Limerick (born 10 February 1963) is an Anglo-Irish peer and son of Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick. He was educated at Eton College, the Pushkin Institute and New College, Oxford. He then continued his studies ...at City University London, graduating with a diploma of law. He was known by his father's subsidiary title, Viscount Glentworth, until he inherited the earldom upon the death of his father on 8 January 2003.
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