Columnist Ram Charan

Here's a question to test your prospects as a business leader: How does your company make money? If you can't answer it, you're hardly alone. Many MBAs can't answer it. Many CFOs and vice presidents can't answer it. Experienced

The product launch was just six weeks away, and the team's spirits were high -- until Dave, the business unit manager, turned his attention to Jill, the head of sales. She was in charge of training the sales force to sell the new product. Wishful

From mom-and-pop shops to regional manufacturers to vast Fortune 500 corporations, the range of disparate businesses that make up the global economy is almost mind-boggling. Yet for all of their diversity, businesses of every size, shape, and

One of the great truisms of leadership success is that a leader must constantly keep an eye on "the big picture." But there's a serious flaw in this bit of time-honored advice -- the big picture keeps changing. In its wake lie the

As the old saying goes, if you don't know where you're going, any road can get you there. That's why you need to establish specific goals . But once you have those goals, you need to create a path for achieving them. In other words, you