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Confronting Reality will change how you think about and run your business. It's the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to comprehend and use the business model as the principal tool for confronting reality—a breakthrough that will become the management innovation of the decade—you’ll know eventually whether your fundamental business premise is under assault, where your best opportunities lie, what you should change and what you should leave alone, as well as how to realistically plan the continuing future of your business.
The fundamentals of what sort of business makes money are being rapidly and permanently altered by sweeping structural changes. With their extraordinary depth and breadth of experience, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan are the ideal guides for everyone—entrepreneur, mid-level manager, or CEO—in what is usually to be done so you can get things right in this challenging, radically changed world. They begin by showing you how to comprehend the most fundamental component of any business: whether you can realistically make the amount of money you hope to in the overall game you’re playing.
Bossidy and Charan show how to use the business model to build up a robust, reality-based process for taking into consideration the speci?cs of your business in a holistic way. They show how to tie together the financial targets you must meet, the external realities you face, and internal activities such as strategy development, operating tactics, and selection and development of individuals.
Through the lens of the business model, as well as the skillful use of initiatives and development of individuals with the right leadership characteristics, you’ll see how Robert Nardelli in the home Depot, Jim McNerney at 3M, Dick Harrington at the Thomson Corporation, Michael Wisbrun at KLM, Joseph Tucci at EMC, and John Chambers at Cisco confronted reality. If they faced crisis or opportunity, all made the right types of changes through a combo of business savvy (the art of understanding the fundamentals driving a business) and business design thinking.
From the Hardcover edition.
