This article is a last of a series about a turn-around engagement I had in 2021. From the outside, even on the surface, the company looked successful. But by the time I arrived, a serious cancer had metastasized and had left no organ, no business function, without considerable rot. It was going to take invasive…
As we complete another circuit around the sun, we find ourselves reflective of the year’s hard-fought battles won and lost, of loves arrived and departed, and of our professional successes and disappointments. With rebuilding spirit and energy, we look with great anticipation to what lay before us in the coming year. And, most importantly, we…
Earlier this year I shared a tale of woe. One of my long-term clients had suffered a ransomware attack due mostly to the negligence of the business leadership to be respectful of the need to maintain their information technology infrastructure and be vigilant against external threats from bad actors (along with internal threats from system…
Back in the middle of 2017, as Tesla was ramping up the production of the Model-3 and the company was worth only $63.5 billion (as opposed to $1 trillion today), Elon Musk famously stated that he was entering “Production Hell“. Evidently, he made it through just fine. But people reading this might think; “Isn’t Musk…
I recently came off a project with a metal fabrication company that was in severe distress. I was originally introduced to the company in October of 2020 by a mentor of the owner who thought they could use my help. At the time, the owner believed he had the situation under control; he did not. …
I had a project where I was hired to try to help turn a company around. The challenges faced existed across the entirety of the company. In fact, there was no function of the company that was operating at an acceptable level. This company was very sick. The owner of the company and I made…
