This book will help you identify the 8 skills that help determine who will succeed as a leader in business and those who won’t. There are many skills that leaders can possess and Ram Charan has identified these 8 as the determining factors for those who will reach the top of their field and potentially become CEOs, Presidents and entrepreneurs.
The 8 skills are:
1. Positioning and re-positioning the business
2. Pinpointing and taking action on external change
3. Leading the social system of the company
4. Judging, selecting and developing people
5. Molding a team
6. Determining and setting goals
7. Setting laser-sharp dominant priorities
8. Dealing with forces beyond the market and outside of your control
The successful businessperson will be able to see those people around them who have complementary skills and help them to obtain the highest level they can. Surrounding yourself with those who have skills you don’t have and mentoring them can help you get the needed help and knowledge when you need it.
Ram Charan uses examples from many companies both successes and failures and shows how and why the companies flourished and failed. The successful leader needs to be able to see opportunities beyond today and build a team and the needed resources to be able to respond to these opportunities. Criticisms can be hard to take, but the successful person learns to set a course and stick to it even when those around him are criticizing the course of action. Being decisive is an attribute that must be acquired by those who want to excel in the business world.
This updated version of the classic written by Napoleon Hill covers much more than just becoming wealthy. His principles can be applied to help you grow your knowledge and advance your career as well as your life. The thirteen principles covered here include desire, faith, subconscious mind, specialized knowledge, mastermind team, autosuggestion, and persistence among others.
Napoleon Hill’s original book has been updated with examples from the powerhouses of today’s business world including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Howard Schultz. The principles still apply in today’s world as much as they did when they were first written.
We learn how to apply creative imagination to see things from a different perspective and potentially find new ways to address the situations and problems around us. Hill offers ten mind stimulants to help us develop using our minds to the best of our ability and also helps us develop a stronger sixth sense so that we can learn to take advantage of possibilities around us before everyone else has already starting doing so. By applying the principles we learn here we can become more in control of where our lives and careers are headed and become more satisfied with our lives and our accomplishments.
No one can succeed in today’s world as an island and using these principles we can learn how to use the people and resources around us to gain the best advantages and achievements possible. We learn how to motivate ourselves better and how to use the skills and knowledge of those around us by developing mastermind teams that can help us see opportunities and apply the knowledge to advance the possibilities for those around us as well.
More and more of us are doing business globally. An important aspect that can’t be ignored is the customs and etiquette of the countries we are choosing to do business in.
Trying to get a basic understanding of the people and countries we are buying from and selling to can be time consuming. Simple Guides has a number of short books out on just this topic.
These short volumes cover the background of the country, a little history to get a context for the people and the customs and etiquette to guide you in developing lasting relationships with the people you want to do business with.
Customs and Etiquette of Australia covers a synopsis of the country and its language, a brief history of how the country developed, background on the native Aboriginal people, the food and drink of the country, including alcoholic drinks, important aspects of doing business in Australia, contemporary etiquette and what to watch out for when traveling the country. Reading this and other books like it will help you expand your market, as you will not be as likely to make a major faux pas that might end up costing your company money and opportunities.
Guide books are also available for the following countries: France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam.
