Leading Through Inflation - by Ram Charan & Geri Willigan (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Ram Charan has guided hundreds of companies through many tough business challenges. In the early 1980s, he helped GE preserve its teetering credit rating in the face of double-digit inflation. Now, in Leading Through Inflation, he brings the same common sense and wisdom that made his book Execution, coauthored with Larry Bossidy, a long-time New York Times bestseller. This book will be your guide to avoiding the hazards of inflation while positioning your company to thrive when the business cycle stabilizes. It provides Ram's down-to-earth recommendations and real-world examples to help you navigate a landscape that may be new to you."--

Book Synopsis

Inflation is here. Do you know how it's impacting your
company?

It's not just a matter of rising costs. Inflation eats cash,
squeezes margins, threatens working capital, and throws all your great
forecasts and plans into question. Its effect is cumulative and pervasive.

Yet this period of economic discontinuity is a huge opportunity
to come out stronger for those who know how to lead in the face of inflation
and a looming recession.

Ram Charan has guided hundreds of companies through many
tough business challenges. In the early 1980s, he helped GE preserve its
teetering credit rating in the face of double-digit inflation. Now, in Leading
Through Inflation, he brings the same common sense and wisdom that made his
book Execution, coauthored with Larry Bossidy, a long-time New York
Times bestseller.

This book will be your guide to avoiding the hazards of
inflation while positioning your company to thrive when the business cycle
stabilizes. It provides Ram's down-to-earth recommendations and real-world
examples to help you navigate a landscape that may be new to you.

As you learn to lead through inflation, you will be better prepared
for recession and stagflation as well. You will know how to protect your cash,
your customers, and your capital investments. Your psychology will shift from
anxiety and fear to optimism and excitement as you define the path to a
reimagined future.

Review Quotes

"Ram is among the world's top business thinkers. Many of the
world's best CEOs have benefitted from Ram's wisdom. As we enter this era of
lurching change, please read Ram's insights on leading through inflation to
reinvent your own approach to this contemporary challenge."

--Fred Hassan, Director, Warburg Pincus

"A must-read book for today's CXOs - since most have never
had experience delivering results in high inflation environments. Drawing on
learnings from their multi-decade experience and from extensive research into
the current business world, Ram & Geri clearly articulate 2nd and 3rd order
impacts of inflation (beyond the obvious cost-price relationship), and offer
empirically proven and practical solutions that are useful to businesses in all
industries."

--Raj Ratnakar,
Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, DuPont

"Some sound, valuable
and timely insights from Charan and his partner on how to effectively deal with
current and potentially insidious effects from inflation. A necessary read led
by 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. The
lessons he offers are exceptional. If success is a goal for you, read this book
and then share it with your closest friend."

--Bob Dilenschneider, Chairman and CEO, The Dilenschneider
Group

"Ram's must-do actions to outpace inflation for business
managers, functional leaders and board members are mission critical in our
resource-constrained world."

--Chad Holliday,
Co-chair, Mission Possible Partnership

About the Author

Ram Charan is a bestselling author, teacher, and
world renown advisor to CEOs and other business leaders of some of the world's
best-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 were
bestsellers, he is known for providing real-world solutions-- the kind of advice
you can use Monday morning. His book
Execution, lauded for its practicality, spent more than 150 weeks on the New
York Times best-seller list.

Ram has an MBA with high distinction and a doctorate degree
from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and faculty member.
He was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human
Resources, was on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance, and
serves or has served on a dozen boards in the US, Brazil, China, India, Canada,
and Dubai.

Geri Willigan is an independent content developer and
business writer who has worked closely with Ram Charan for nearly 30 years on a
range of projects, including bestselling books. She first met Ram when she was
an editor at Harvard Business Review in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Geri helped numerous experts publish classic HBR articles,
including Michael Hammer (father of reengineering), Stephen Roach (Yale
economist), Hermann Simon (co-founder of pricing consultancy Simon-Kucher &
Partners), and Fred Reichheld (Bain & Company thought leader on customer loyalty),
and interviewed prominent business leaders including Nike CEO Phil Knight and
Disney CFO Gary Wilson.