52 Week Turnaround https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html About 52 Week Turnaround What’s Jeanne Goldie up to now? And why should I read this blog? 10 Rules for Beginning a Turnaround Rule # 1: Are you an Aspirin or a Vitamin? Rule #2: What you knew on the very first day, is what you need to remember now. Rule #3 Weigh the Opportunity Cost Rule #4: Do the Math: Follow the Money Rule #5: Find your Allies Rule# 6: Build a Measuring Stick. Rule #7: Locate the Elephants Rule #8: Understand the Art, Science and Use of Duct Tape Rule # 9: Change Does Not Occur in a Vacuum Turnaround Rule #10.5 Know When to Go. What Dieters can Teach us about Creating Organizational Change: Five For Friday! Business Development Expert Julie Fleming Humiliation, Rat Poison and a Freight Train Steve Simpson and his Unwritten Ground Rules on Meetings Pushing a snowball uphill? How to keep your focus! Following some Mighty Bad Footsteps; How to avoid the Landmines! Uncomfortable Conversations: The Key to a Successful Turnaround What Bubble are You Living in? Billy Joel used to live in it too! Are you Asking the Right Questions in your Marketing Plan? What are you NOT seeing? And what is it going to cost you? Going the Distance What if the Government is your Biggest Customer? What can “Breaking Bad” teach us about Organizational Change? Uncomfortable Conversation #1: “We need to shut down a business line” Why do Employees Resist Change, a simple graphic from Torben Rick Uncomfortable Conversation #2: The Project has some Cost Overruns. Big Ones. Team Building Fail – How do we get rid of the body? Five Reasons Your Project isn’t Getting any Love How are YOU telling your story? Sizzle, Steak or Rainbows? Uncomfortable Conversation #3: Requesting Privileges, Staff Time or Resources You’re Not “Entitled” To Have Managing Great Expectations Is this it? The Mid-level Manager’s Lament We Screwed Up. Speed Read your Work Environment, Today Pull the Tooth. Admitting Failure, Rewriting the book on Burying Mistakes Just Say No Are you selling what they need to hear? Are you Afraid of Being Seen? Can you Make it Simpler? Are you Settling? Taking Stock of this Week: How Effective were You? #3 of 3 Great Reasons why what Worked for you Before, isn’t Working Now. Charging Back Uphill: Blasting out of a Stall. What are you prepared to do?! (cue Sean Connery) Adventures in Interviewing: Shoot Straight or Not?