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Ram Charan

WHAT THE CUSTOMER WANTS YOU TO KNOW

Shift from selling products to solving customer problems—and watch your business grow.
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What Will You Learn?

Understand customer profitability to transform from vendor to trusted partner – What the Customer Wants You to Know by Charan revolutionizes B2B relationship dynamics.

This comprehensive customer strategy summary and partnership methods include:

  • Value Creation Selling - Help customers improve their P&L performance, not just your own
  • Customer Profitability Analysis - Know exactly how your customers make money
  • Trusted Advisor Positioning - Become indispensable through deep business insight and understanding
  • Multi-Function Teams - Align entire organization around customer success metrics and outcomes



2025 application: As products commoditize rapidly, understanding customer economics becomes the only sustainable competitive differentiation.

Your Click.Apply.Grow™ partnership strategy: Study one key customer's business model deeply this week. Propose value beyond your product features. Measure their success metrics directly. B2B companies using this strategic approach achieve 75% higher customer retention and 3x larger deal sizes.

Sell products, remain vendor. Improve profits, become partner.

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About the Author

Ram Charan is a world-renowned CEO advisor and director of seven boards who has counseled executives at Humana, Bank of America, and China's largest digital companies.

Author of 32 books including Execution—New York Times bestseller for 150 weeks (4M+ copies sold). Six authoritative books on corporate governance. Harvard Business School doctorate and Baker Scholar. Delivered 12,000+ hours of performance coaching. Crotonville and Northwestern faculty shaping Fortune 500 leaders.

2025 relevance: As boards face AI governance challenges, Charan's frameworks help directors navigate unprecedented technological disruption.

Works across 80+ countries bridging Eastern and Western management philosophies. CEOs implementing Charan's execution discipline achieve 2.3x better shareholder returns than peers.

The execution expert who turns boardroom strategy into marketplace victory.

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