BUSINESS TURNAROUNDS: “The Ultimate Leadership Challenge”

Business Turnarounds

Online Library

Some Factors to Consider

Business Turnarounds

Business turnarounds are the ultimate leadership challenge. All business disciplines, including finance, leadership, analysis, law, HR, sales, technology, logistics, marketing, and strategic thinking – are deployed in a fierce fight for survival.
Turnarounds usually require 12-18 months. Yet a turnaround CEO often receives the equivalent experience of a lifetime career at one company.

Success Factors

Success requires obsessive effort combining clear thinking with truthful, selfless leadership in an atmosphere of trust. A goal is to establish understanding and bring out the best in everyone.

Turnaround Opportunities

The number of troubled businesses is very great relative to the available help. This holds true in strong and weak economies. Turnaround management opportunities are nearly limitless.
Government policy, the economy, and the competitive landscape can be assumed as fixed or non-controllable. But most business problems are controllable, basic, and uncomplicated. Some improvement is always possible. You have to build on what’s good.
Turnaround management techniques are useful in almost any business. Proven techniques are documented in the Library and in a hard copy Book.

The Library

The Library is entitled “Business Turnaround Leadership: Principles, Techniques, and Applications”. It offers battle-proven approaches and solutions. Success requires following analytical and leadership processes. Success doesn’t require knowing the answers or about the industry or its technology.
Everything written and posted here is proprietary: developed and deployed by Bluewater Management. It reflects sound logic and the highest standards of integrity.

Practical Applications - This material has two practical applications:
A) Business
B) Education

A) Business

Direct deployment in a business setting. The content is designed to enable a turnaround leader to analyze, assess, plan and lead a company out of trouble. The material is written so that employees can read, understand and directly implement the needed techniques. Alumni can access the online library and use the material directly.

B) Education

Student reference, and material for a course on turnarounds, leadership, or ethics. It’s thought that leading turnarounds are deserving of inclusion in business education. There’s enough material to design a class on leading turnarounds, as well as classes on leadership, business analysis, planning, raising capital, and selling companies.