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Confronting Reality

Confronting Reality offers a game-changing approach to understanding and running your business in today’s rapidly evolving world. Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan introduce the business model as the key tool for confronting reality, helping you identify opportunities, make necessary changes, and plan for the future. This breakthrough framework helps you assess whether your business premise is still viable and guides you through the steps to thrive in a radically altered business landscape.

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Business Model Thinking
Strategic Decision Making
Leadership in a Changing World
Confronting Reality
  • Jack Welch
    Former CEO, General Electric

    "A great practitioner and an insightful theorist join forces to write a compelling business story of 'how to get it done'"

  • Publisher’s Weekly

    On the heels of their business bestseller Execution, retired Honeywell chairman and CEO Bossidy and corporate guru Charan take a step back and focus on the more fundamental issue of figuring out what to execute in the first place. The message is simple (“relentless realism”), and their solution is a return to the “ancient analytical tool” of a three-part business model that includes external realities (such as customer demand and industry conditions), financial targets (such as cash flow and revenue growth) and internal realities (such as operational and workforce capabilities). 

Confronting Reality

"It is your job as a leader to steer the company through inflation, whether or not you have practice at it. That means fully understanding how inflation touches every part of the business and enlisting the help of others in the company to combat it. Hunkering down until the Federal Reserve fixes things is not a viable plan..."

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