The Turnaround Mindset

This book provides a valuable balance between what one must know and what one must do to turn around low-performing schools. The 3-E framework simplifies this complex process by focusing resources on the environment, the executive, and the execution of the turnaround plan. A set of case studies on individuals who have led successful turnarounds of schools gives life to the theoretical concepts.

"This book has some of the most applicable insights on strategy and growth I've read. The ideas on the responsibility business has to society are beneficial to all stakeholders. A wonderful book that helps your business and our society." --Dr. Santa Ono, president, University of British Columbia Leading corporate strategists Mark Faust and Rob Vickery provide their proven turnaround tactics to grow any business. Their game-changing methods have enabled countless companies to obtain long-term and systematic growth. In praise of High-Growth Levers . . . "These guiding principles are what grow great and enduring companies!" --Dave Mawhinney, executive director, Carnegie Mellon Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship "A practical and inspiring resource loaded with new and highly effective tools for developing a culture of innovation, purpose, and success. You'll be amazed at the results!" --Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, author of the #1 New York Timesbestseller Triggers "This book is filled with a ton of what to do in a very, very leveraged way." --Dr. Frank Wagner, cofounder of Stakeholder Centered Coaching "The turnaround mindset is the key to sustainable growth for any company." --Ralph O'Dell, turnaround CEO "One of the most pragmatic books on strategy, innovation, and culture I've read." --Dr. Jeffrey C. Bauer, dean and professor of management, University of Cincinnati-Clermont College "High-Growth Leversis your roadmap to your growth goals!" --Sandy Costa, chairman, Metabolon Inc.; past president and COO of Quintiles Since the 1990s, Mark Faust has run Echelon Management International, providing guidance to companies in turnaround and those experiencing growth. His clients include P&G, IBM, Monsanto, Apple, Syngenta, Bayer, and John Deere. He has worked extensively with major market convention and visitor bureaus, including those in Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Indianapolis. His classes at the University of Cincinnati and at Ohio University, where he was an adjunct professor, were some of the most popular with business school students and entrepreneurs. Rob Vickery focuses on marketing, business development, product development, and operations. He is an experienced strategist in the development and market penetration of technology-based products and services.

This book provides a valuable balance between what one must know and what one must do to turn around low-performing schools. The 3-E framework simplifies this complex process by focusing resources on the environment, the executive, and the execution of the turnaround plan. Central to each of these components is a spotlight on the values supporting change and an examination of the unique perspectives and actions required at the school, district and state levels in renewing chronically underperforming schools. A set of case studies on individuals who have led successful turnarounds of schools gives life to the theoretical concepts. These cases focus on the principal as turnaround specialist, offering leadership profiles from their varied perspectives and demonstrate the resilience of these leaders across settings and challenges. The book concludes with a discussion of how the developing field of school turnarounds affects educational policy in the K-12 and higher education arenas.

Wake Up and Take Control of Your Life and Business! Darren Stephens and Spike Humer, two of the world's most Brilliant Business minds, reveal the secrets to How to Transform your Business and make it Survive and Thrive in any Economic Climate. What separates companies in any economy, any market or any industry is your ability to adapt, adjust and execute. Business owners who know where they are, where they want to go, and then take effective action survive and thrive - those that don't face extinction. Read this book, your future might depend on it. This book contains hands-on, real-world, strategies designed to show you how to take control of your present and what to do to design your future for you - and your business. The decision is yours. Stay the course or take action now.

Rural Turnaround Leadership Development: The Power of Partnerships focuses on a three- year rural turnaround leadership project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. The project was designed to foster the development of a cohort of aspiring school leaders in rural high poverty/low performing K-12 school districts. The Alabama Project was selected by the U.S. Department of Education, in part, because it was the only submission which emphasized partnership between higher education institutions, school districts and the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE). Facets of the book include a treatment of the structures and processes each university created to develop their unique program, the distinctive turnaround curriculum used at each university, the role of mentoring in developing aspiring rural school leaders and the internship experiences and practices which supported aspiring leader development. One of the most powerful changes witnessed during the project was the development of aspiring leaders by the major and ancillary partners. The cross-connections between K-12 districts, the ALSDE, and the three university educational leadership programs was a multifaceted and multi-layered collaborative approach. The partnerships not only strengthened within each master’s program, but across agencies as a result of this project. The book will describe the value of partnership and leadership development through the eyes of the major contributors. The contributors or authors of the book will include the Alabama State Department of Education, the three educational leadership higher education institutions i.e. Auburn University, University of Alabama and Samford University, partner school district representatives and graduates of the program.

MARKETING TURNAROUNDS: A Guide to Surviving Downturns and Rediscovering Growth Knowledge of the intricate dynamics of marketing turnarounds is a fundamental requirement for business survival and growth today. The intense desire to survive in a slow market and find new avenues for growth has become a pressing goal for companies. The objective of this book is to enable the pursuit of this goal by providing a guide for managers on various marketing approaches that can lead to growth and profitability. The science of marketing turnarounds is based on an accurate understanding of how consumers respond to their changing environment. This book provides such an understanding by developing a framework of the various approaches to successfully executing marketing turnarounds. The framework and tools discussed not only enable managers to combat sales and profitability downturns, but also guide them in their aggressive pursuit of innovative ways to further nurture their businesses in stable and growing markets. "Marketing Turnarounds is a step by step guide to stop the bleeding and reposition your company for profits. Whether it's due to the economy or management blunders, this book will help you decide if a company or brand can be salvaged, how to cut costs without hurting sales, how to reposition the company or brand to take advantage of consumer and environmental trends, how to price, and how to promote - even in a bad economy. I strongly recommend this book for any company whose profits have started pointing south. I also recommend it for would-be entrepreneurs - reading this will help you avoid some of the mistakes you would otherwise make." -Marlene Jensen, CEO of Pricing Strategy Associates and author of Pricing Psychology Report and The Tao of Pricing "A step by step marketing manual for a much ignored subject: turnarounds " -Jeffrey F. Willmott, Former Chairman of RCG Companies "A must have for all marketers. It is timely and an important tool kit for marketers and a path breaking work in marketing." -Rajneesh Suri, Associate Professor of Marketing, Drexel University "Marketing Turnarounds is a timely and extremely valuable addition to the current literature, not only for practitioners and students of marketing, but it is also a 'must read' for leaders and managers in all disciplines who are interested in growing the top and bottom lines of their businesses" -William V. Catucci, Former CEO of AT&T Canada Long Distance Services

The book offers a progressive perspective of turnaround principals and adds to the current turnaround school literature. It includes stories of the lived experiences of three critically conscious principals’ journey to school transformation. The turnaround principals in this book disrupted cultures of oppression in predominantly African American schools. Through the power of transformative leadership these school leaders improved the academic outcomes for students as well as the working conditions of teachers and staff.