Confronting Reality: Master the New Model for Success

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		Confronting Reality: Master the New Model for Success
		Confronting Reality: Master the New Model for Success

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.

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Regrettably, the contents of the book do not actually live up to the title. Although the authors offer there own esoteric version of a business model, liberally illustrated with contemporary business case studies from Kmart, Dell, Wal-Mart and some others, the thesis of the book is heavy on the human aspects of confronting reality.

In some instances, like some history authors, the authors of this book seem to twist the contemporary/historical case studies in order to substantiate their thesis. Unfortunately, it appears that they have found what they were looking for and then devised the questions and thesis around that.

It is difficult to decide if this book is about execution, business or change management. I have decided that, in my humble opinion, that it is none of these. To the authors credit, they provide the friendly reminder on how to look at things in a different light; in essence lots on talking the talk, but very short on how to walk the walk. If your thirsty for knowledge and are searching for something tangible, don't but this book; if however you are philosophically minded and want to debate the merits of the intangible elements of leadership and organizational behavior then this book may be of some interest for you.

All in all, the book is ok, it assumes a level of business understanding (or in the authors words, savvy) on the part of the reader, knows the talk, does not necessarily walk the walk and is heavy on what many might call the human elements of business.

This book is much closer to daily operation in manufacturing environment, I hope I can read more after read aurthor's another book "execution-the discipline of getting things donw", but I made a mistake in which I only ordered a audio book, so I added another order to buy paper vesion again.

I will recommend this book to my colleagues and my team to lean meantime.

I hope author can sale his books with free-cd.

Instead of peicemealing a business to death: strategy, marketing, finance, etc. Bossidy and Charan give us a view of a whole business, from the chair of the savvy Entrepreneur or that of the CEO. They show hot to fit all the peices of a business together.

Bossidy and Charan use well-known examples and analyze the pitfalls and successes of these examples (Home Depot, Walmart, Thompson) according to a three-part business model: external environment, internal operations and financial targets. They also show you how to integrate by juggling the three simultaneously!

This was a great introductory book to orient businesspersons of any trade, level and experience to the whole shebang of business.

But. . .

Truthfully, i have read this 'business model' stuff before, with more depth and more analysis. I read the book "The Escher Cycle" by F. Jackson a couple of years back. That book goes into much more detail about most of Bossidy and Charan's three-part business model. Couple that book with "Value Migration" and you'll have a much better handle on the hurly-burly world of business.

very practical book and easy to follow- this is a must read for everyone who is in business or who wants to improve their life.

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