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...casualty list is growing because the role of CEO is getting ever more difficult. Companies are larger, and technology is accelerating product cycles, so any mistake is likely to be huge. "The situation has become much more complex," says management consultant Ram Charan. "The speed of change is faster. Wall Street is demanding more and reacting quickly when things don't go right. That's creating tremendous pressure...
...Charan is a Dallas-based adviser to CEOs and co-author, with Noel M. Tichy, of Every Business Is a Growth Business
...Charan Singh, the caretaker Prime Minister and leader of Janata's spinoff, the Lok Dal party, fared little better. His campaign warnings that the election of Indira and Sanjay heralded a return to dictatorship were ignored. Lok Dal won only 41 seats in Parliament, including Singh's own. It seemed unlikely that the bitterly quarrelsome Lok Dal and Janata parties could repair their breach in order to form an effective opposition to Gandhi's Congress Party. An ominous prospect, however, is an alliance between the Communist parties that won a total of 37 seats in West Bengal...
...election that made Gandhi's re-emergence possible has come about as the result of a tangled political crisis that began last summer, when India's ruling Janata Party split in two. The leader of the breakaway Lok Dal faction, Charan Singh, was named Prime Minister of a shaky coalition government. But when Gandhi withdrew her party's support, parliament had to be dissolved. With Singh remaining in office temporarily as caretaker Prime Minister, a new general election was called 21/2 years ahead of schedule...
...political tactician, Mrs. Gandhi outwitted, outfought and outcornered the opposition. With no current seat of her own in Parliament, she directed the Congress (I) from her home or from party offices. Having first backed Charan Singh in July in order to force the resignation of Desai, she then deserted Charan Singh to force his resignation less than a month later. Ram, who has been in every Cabinet since independence, stood by Mrs. Gandhi throughout the Emergency, but deserted her at the last moment to help the Janata Party win the 1977 election. Last week she took her revenge by denying...