Showing results for title "The Turnaround" in Business & Careers

United Airlines, the iconic brand that invented the “Friendly Skies” and built modern aviation, found itself amid rough turbulence and was anything but united in 2015. With its reputation in freefall, operations and profits cratering, customer and employee trust fraying—and competitors pushing into coveted routes—United needed a new captain to turn things around, fast.

Corporate Turnaround Artistry is a complete guide for entrepreneurial companies in times of financial distress - presenting effective strategies and proven methods to revive and rehabilitate your business. Uncertain economic times have significantly altered the financial resources available to struggling businesses. Narrowing margins and mounting internal and external pressure has taken their toll on many companies. Fortunately, most businesses can be repaired while maintaining their existing revenue structure.

In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on a watch list for extinction, victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.

ABC Hurricane Shutters, a Florida-based company, was on the verge of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, having recorded losses in each of the preceding three years. In From Red to Black: A Business Turnaround, Robert S. Curry shares his thought process, action steps, and profit improvement recommendations throughout his turnaround engagement at the shutter company. After Bob’s first meeting with the owner, he developed a detailed plan for recovery and was engaged the next day. Within four months, the company had made a complete turnaround with nearly every “must-do” completed.

Few business leaders in the world have applied Lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne has - and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity. Byrne has successfully implemented Lean strategies in more than 30 companies in 14 different countries. In The Lean Turnaround, this legendary business leader shares everything he has learned during his remarkable career and shows how anyone can achieve similar results.

Ed Whitacre is credited with taking over the corporate reins at General Motors (GM) when the automotive manufacturer was on the brink of bankruptcy during 2009 and turned the company around in magnificent fashion. In this business memoir, the native Texan explores his unique management style, business acumen and patriotism. It was President Obama who reached out to Ed Whitacre to come out of retirement and take over GM in 2009.

In The Turnaround Formula, Marvin reveals his secrets in a step-by-step program that will begin to have an effect from day one. Your company will take on a lean, mean, more aggressive posture that gives it an edge in today's super-competitive marketplace. For people looking to revive a failing company or those interested in strengthening a healthy one, The Turnaround Formula is the sure-fire prescription for renewed profits.

Few business leaders in the world have applied Lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne has - and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity. Byrne has successfully implemented Lean strategies in more than 30 companies in 14 different countries. In The Lean Turnaround, this legendary business leader shares everything he has learned during his remarkable career and shows how anyone can achieve similar results.

Now more than ever, company leaders need fresh ideas about how to grow their organization's sales and profits. Growth or Bust! is a manual that can be used by any company leader for finding untapped growth potentials.

When Paul Kusserow began consulting for Amedisys, the home healthcare company was on the brink of collapse. Its stock had fallen to less than $11 per share, and it had to borrow money to pay a massive government fine. Six months later, Kusserow became its CEO. Under his leadership, Amedisys dramatically improved operations, increased its market capitalization by over tenfold, and took its place among the country's top home care and hospice businesses. In this in-depth case study, Kusserow explains how he achieved this stunning turnaround.

The audiobook is designed to give the foundation on more than 100 strategies anyone can implement that can make an almost-immediate impact on a business. Many of the strategies cost nothing other than time.

Lisa Gable, turnaround mastermind, offers a clear-headed, straightforward method for getting you back on track. For more than 30 years, Lisa Gable has been called to turn around failing organizations and solve seemingly intractable problems. From Silicon Valley to Washington DC, she’s seen it all. Over time, she has learned that the key to course-correct when things go south is applying the discipline of process engineering with diplomacy and humanity, taking care of relationships, and forging strong partnerships.

In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on a watch list for extinction, victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.

In The Great Team Turnaround, Jeff Hilimire shares the PVTV insights and tools he introduces in the first two books of the Leadership Turnaround series. He connects them to the central concepts and resources in the best-selling business classic, The Great Game of Business. In doing so, Hilimire offers an action plan for establishing and activating a higher purpose, vision for the future, operating tenets, and core values as measurable business efforts.

This audiobook will address all the rules that a leader needs to address the changing world that led to ever changing corporate dynamics and put so much pressure on financial balance sheets, P&L, people, customers, technology pipeline, efficiency, talent development, and all what we took for granted for decades. The art of Turnaround (and disruption) are set of tested, validated and proved rules that leaders used over and over, some worked, and many others are lessons learned for what not to do.

Today's customer has discovered that they can often find the best price, service, and quality without ever leaving the comfort of their pajamas. What can you offer that your customer can't get online? And if competing with the Internet isn't enough, you also have to battle national retailers, deep-discount megastores, and big-box merchants. Convincing the customer to choose you over all other options has become more challenging - and more important - than ever.

In The Crisis Turnaround, Jeff Hilimire shares 20+ years of success launching and building fast-growing businesses to teach other leaders how to strategically embrace any challenge, so they can not only survive a crisis but thrive while doing it.

The greatest hurdle to change is the first step - the decision to do it. After that, anything is possible. The 24-Hour Turn-Around challenges people to spend one hour listening and contemplating each of the book's 24 short chapters and to make a heartfelt decision to change in the area each chapter addresses. Decisions made in those 24 hours will transform the listener's career, health, relationships, and overall attitude.

Being a responsive leader means playing to win. Responsive leadership can thrive anywhere, unlike systematic leadership. The latter imposes methods and laws; principles govern action. In contrast, responsive leadership is a living, changing set of traits and skills that adapts to new people and environments. You may have an impressive grasp of how to influence, inspire, and build teams, but you must know how to adapt your abilities to each new organization, or to changes within the organization - new board members, new staff members, new shareholders.

In an increasingly competitive and crowded marketplace, it's not uncommon for business leaders to stick to well-established approaches for growing their bottom lines. But what if those methods are actually bottoming out their businesses? In The 5-Day Turnaround, Jeff Hilimire uses his 20+ years of success in the entrepreneurial arena to teach leaders how to strategically embrace a startup mentality to create transformative growth for their companies. Told through the eyes of Will, a highly accomplished entrepreneur who's running a fast-growing marketing agency.