Episode 3

What the CEO Wants You To Know: How Your Company Really Works (Ram Charan)

June 8, 2026

One of the biggest lessons I took from What the CEO Wants You To Know by Ram Charan is that business is much simpler than most people make it. Great CEOs focus on a handful of fundamentals: customers, cash flow, return on invested capital, and growth. Instead of getting lost in departments, metrics, and complexity, Charan argues that everyone should understand how the business actually makes money. It's a short, practical book that helped me think more like an owner and less like a specialist.Get the book: https://amzn.to/4uyEnIq (affiliate)