If you are not learning every day, you will be left behind. Learning has a cumulative effect, like compound interest, and it is the history of people who get to the top. This is the advice business adviser and author Ram Charan has to offer to young managers and students.
As part of BITSoM Mumbai’s inaugural ideas festival Beacon, Prof Ram Charan, Global Advisor to CEOs and Corporate Boards, and Shiv Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development at the Aditya Birla Group, discuss skillsets, workplaces, and business models that will define the future, in a series title ‘Playbook for tomorrow.’
Shivakumar asked Prof Charan ten questions, that most of us are seeking the answers to. Here are excerpts from their conversation: