4 CAMS of Leading Through a Crisis

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Alix Partners' Peter Fitzsimmons' suggests that turning around companies requires a focus on 4 CAMS: Cash, Achievable plans, Meaningful actions, and Stakeholders. Cash – Get your hands around the cash and manage its flow.  (Too many organizations fail to understand their sources and uses of cash.) Achieveable plans – Develop an achievable business plan (ratcheting [...]

From “You and Me” to “We”

The Harvard Business Review dedicated its entire January, 2009 issue to “Transforming Leaders”, One takeaway from the issue as a whole is the need to move well from “you and me” to “we”. Of course transitioning leaders must pick the right strategy across Start-ups, Turnarounds, Accelerated Growth, Realignment or Sustaining Success (Watkins).  Of course CEO [...]

Hot Landings: onboarding into trouble

Getting a head start, taking control of the message and building or transforming the team are important in any new job situation. They are that much more important when a new leader is making a hot landing – coming into a particularly tricky situation as the results of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, turnaround or opportunity [...]