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By (author) Charan, Ram; By (author) Willigan, Geri
Inflation is here. Do you know how it’s impacting yourcompany?
It’s not just a matter of rising costs. Inflation eats cash,squeezes margins, threatens working capital, and throws all your greatforecasts and plans into question. Its effect is cumulative and pervasive.
Yet this period of economic discontinuity is a huge opportunityto come out stronger for those who know how to lead in the face of inflationand a looming recession.
Ram Charan has guided hundreds of companies through manytough business challenges. In the early 1980s, he helped GE preserve itsteetering credit rating in the face of double-digit inflation. Now, in LeadingThrough Inflation, he brings the same common sense and wisdom that made hisbook Execution, coauthored with Larry Bossidy, a long-time New YorkTimes bestseller.
This book will be your guide to avoiding the hazards ofinflation while positioning your company to thrive when the business cyclestabilizes. It provides Ram’s down-to-earth recommendations and real-worldexamples to help you navigate a landscape that may be new to you.
As you learn to lead through inflation, you will be better preparedfor recession and stagflation as well. You will know how to protect your cash,your customers, and your capital investments. Your psychology will shift fromanxiety and fear to optimism and excitement as you define the path to areimagined future.
Review quote
“Ram is among the world’s top business thinkers. Many of theworld’s best CEOs have benefitted from Ram’s wisdom. As we enter this era oflurching change, please read Ram’s insights on leading through inflation toreinvent your own approach to this contemporary challenge.”
—Fred Hassan, Director, Warburg Pincus
“A must-read book for today’s CXOs – since most have neverhad experience delivering results in high inflation environments. Drawing onlearnings from their multi-decade experience and from extensive research intothe current business world, Ram & Geri clearly articulate 2nd and 3rd orderimpacts of inflation (beyond the obvious cost-price relationship), and offerempirically proven and practical solutions that are useful to businesses in allindustries.”
—Raj Ratnakar,Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, DuPont
“Some sound, valuableand timely insights from Charan and his partner on how to effectively deal withcurrent and potentially insidious effects from inflation. A necessary read ledby a renowned savvy veteran.”
—Larry Bossidy, former chair and CEO of Honeywell,coauthor of bestseller Execution
“Ram Charan, one of the smartest people out there today,delivers a level of insight and wisdom that can be found nowhere else. Thelessons he offers are exceptional. If success is a goal for you, read this bookand then share it with your closest friend.”
—Bob Dilenschneider, Chairman and CEO, The DilenschneiderGroup
“Ram’s must-do actions to outpace inflation for businessmanagers, functional leaders and board members are mission critical in ourresource-constrained world.”
—Chad Holliday,Co-chair, Mission Possible Partnership
Biographical note
Ram Charan is a bestselling author, teacher, andworld renown advisor to CEOs and other business leaders of some of the world’sbest-known companies, including Toyota, Bank of America, Aditya Birla Group,Novartis, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), and Humana.
The author of close to forty books, four of which werebestsellers, he is known for providing real-world solutions— the kind of adviceyou can use Monday morning. His bookExecution, lauded for its practicality, spent more than 150 weeks on the NewYork Time
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