Turning a Business Around: How to Spot the Warning Signs and Ensure a Business Stays Healthy
by Mark Blayney
There is lots of advice around for starting a business, but less for when it is established but un-profitable, or gets into difficulties. This is a guide to help you when the going gets tough. It acts as a smoke detector – to help spot the early warning signs of approaching difficulty, and as a fire extinguisher – for immediate use in a crisis. It will help you to turn a business around by explaining: why businesses fail, how to spot the warning signs, key ways to stabilise your finances, how to devise a realistic recovery plan, and how to manage that plan into effective action.
- Paperback: 205 pages
- Publisher: How to Books; 2nd edition (February 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1845280636
- ISBN-13: 978-1845280635
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Corporate Turnaround: How Managers Turn Losers into Winners
by Donald B. Bibeault (Author)
From the Publisher
A comprehensive guide on how to turn a financially distressed company into a strong viable one. Based on the experience of 97 corporate leaders who successfully managed turnarounds in more than 200 failing corporations, the book analyzes the reasons for corporate decline, expounds on the key factors in turnaround success, and provides management strategies and practices for regaining growth and profits.
- Paperback: 406 pages
- Publisher: Beard Books; 2nd edition (December 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1893122026
- ISBN-13: 978-1893122024
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Leading Corporate Turnaround: How Leaders Fix Troubled Companies
by Stuart Slatter, David Lovett, and Laura Barlow
Leadership is never more crucial than when corporate survival is at stake. But the days of the tough guys are over. The leaders who are driving today’s sustainable turnarounds understand that the answers to a distressed company’s problems lie almost always within the firm itself – usually at middle manager level and below. The secret is cooperation. Drawing on interviews with top company doctors and advisers, as well as on the authors’ own experience, Leading Corporate Turnarounds explores seven key leadership and management skills required for successful turnaround, and shows why quickly gaining the buy-in and trust of all stakeholders is the key to ultimate success.
- Hardcover: 246 pages
- Publisher: Wiley (February 10, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 047002559X
- ISBN-13: 978-0470025598
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Turnaround: Leading Stressed Colleges and Universities to Excellence
by James Martin (Author), James E. Samels (Author)
Product Description
Nearly one thousand colleges and universities in the United States face major challenges — from catastrophic hurricanes to loss of accreditation to sagging enrollment. What can leaders of such at-risk institutions do to improve their situation? Turnaround gives college and university leaders the tools they need to put their fragile institutions back on a path to success.
This comprehensive handbook outlines how board members, presidents, and administrators can identify their institutions’ weaknesses, implement plans for improvement, and mitigate existing damage. Turnaround also identifies the legal pitfalls that often accompany institutional change, offering solutions for how to overcome such obstacles or avoid them altogether.
Evaluating the experiences of two hundred college leaders, the contributors share such critical information as:
• 20 indicators of institutional vulnerability• 10 necessary skills for presidents directing a turnaround• 5 characteristics of institutions that have completed successful turnarounds• 10 lessons of successful turnarounds
Featuring candid advice from decision makers who have faced severe challenges, Turnaround is a valuable resource for college and university leaders facing tough times.
- Hardcover: 328 pages
- Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (December 1, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0801890683
- ISBN-13: 978-0801890680
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Turnaround Leadership
by Michael Fullan (Author)
Review
“In Turnaround Leadership Michael Fullan goes beyond a critique of contemporary practice to offer specific, comprehensive strategies to create schools that become continuously more effective by building the capacity and the confidence of the educators within them. This is a must read for anyone serious about meaningful school improvement.”
—Richard Dufour, educational author and consultant”Michael Fullan moves with authority to identify the kind of leadership needed to turn around our schools. His turnaround solutions are not the product of armchair contemplation, but have emerged out of the sweat and tears of actual systemic reform efforts.”
—Peter Hill, secretary general of the Hong Kong examinations and Assessment Authority
“Michael Fullan’s work on leadership is powerful not just because it is evidence-based but because it is actionable?”
—Sir Michael Barber, McKinsey and Company, London, England
“Fullan goes far beyond the rhetoric of moral purpose to lay out in stark terms what he rightly calls the ‘real reform agenda.’”
—David Hopkins, HSBC chair of international leadership, Institute of Education, University of London
- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass (September 1, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0787969850
- ISBN-13: 978-0787969851
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