TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charan, Ram
TI  - What the CEO wants you to know : using business acumen to understand how your company really works
SN  - 0609608398
U1  - 658.4 
PY  - 0000///2
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown Publishers
N1  - Contents Preface  11 I Business Acumen: The Universal Language of Business  15 1. What Jack Welch and Street Vendors Share: The Essence of Business Thinking '  17 2. Every Business Is the Same Inside: Cutting Through to Cash, Margin, Velocity, Growth, and Customers  28 3. Understanding Your Company's Total Business: How the Pieces Come Together    56 II Business Acumen in the Real World  65 4. The World Has Complexity, Leaders Provide Clarity: Figuring Out Business Priorities  67 5. Wealth Is More Than Making Money: Seeing the Business Like an Investor  77 III Getting Things Done  91 6. Growing People Takes Courage: Making Matches, Fixing Mismatches  93 7. Making Groups Decisive: Designing Social Operating Mechanisms  112 8. What to Do and How to Do It: A CEO witrTan Edge in Execution  119 IV Your Personal Agenda  127 9. Your Part in the Big Picture: Rekindling the Spirit of the Lemonade Stand  129 Index  138
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