Confronting Reality, Larry Bossidy
Confronting Reality, Larry Bossidy
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Confronting Reality
Doing What Matters to Get Things Right

Author: Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan

Narrator: Kevin Gray

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/19/2004


Synopsis

Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is 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 understand and use the business model as the primary tool for confronting reality—a breakthrough that will become the management innovation of this decade—you’ll know sooner rather than later whether your fundamental business premise is under assault, where your best opportunities lie, what you should change and what you should leave alone, and how to realistically plan the future of your business.

The fundamentals of how a 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—about what is to be done so you can get things right in this challenging, radically changed world. They start by showing you how to understand the most fundamental element of any business: whether you can realistically make the money you hope to in the game you’re playing.

Bossidy and Charan show how to use the business model to develop a robust, reality-based process for thinking about 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 people.

Through the lens of the business model, as well as the skillful use of initiatives and development of people with the right leadership characteristics, you’ll see how Robert Nardelli at 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. Whether they faced crisis or opportunity, all made the right kinds of changes through a combination of business savvy (the art of understanding the fundamentals driving a business) and business model thinking.

About The Author

Larry Bossidy is the retired chairman of the board and CEO of Honeywell International, a global $24 billion advanced technology, controls, and manufacturing company. He began his career at General Electric, where he served in a number of executive and financial positions, including COO of GE Capital, executive vice president and president of GE’s Services and Materials Sector, and vice chairman and executive officer. In 1991 Mr. Bossidy joined AlliedSignal Inc. as chairman and CEO and merged the company with Honeywell in 1999. Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker, and author, well known for his practical, real-world perspective. He was a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School where he earned his MBA degree with Distinction, as well as his DBA. Dr. Charan is also the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know, Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business, The Leadership Pipeline, and Boards at Work. His articles have appeared in Fortune and Harvard Business Review.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon

Good business principles and clear explanation of the business model, but felt longer than in needed to be. I enjoyed the last two chapters the most which focused on creating a culture that is adaptable to change and developing leaders who can face reality and make the necessary changes in their bus......more

Goodreads review by Don

what is nature of game playing what future how make money, fifth structural change since ww2, six bad behaviors filtered info selective hearing wishful thinking fear of being fired emotional over investment unrealistic capital market, risk of unpredictable regulations via states, subsidy as a prolon......more

Goodreads review by Eric

Hindsight being what it is, one can point out all sorts of successes and hold up those to support your argument. Not sure what their point was from the title, so perhaps I missed it.......more