Turnaround Mindset (Part 1) with Sean McGuire
07/13/21 • 31 min
Sean is a turnaround guru. In his wide ranging professional experiences in helping distressed companies to restructure and turnaround, he has observed lots of organizational patterns that may have contributed to tough times.
In the COVID era, just about every company experienced elements of turnaround. In this first segment of a two-part episode, Sean shares some of his insights and advice to leaders to draw lessons from our collective experiences during the pandemic, how to avoid pitfalls and ways to watch for warning signs within their own organizations that things may be headed south.
Sean is a turnaround guru. In his wide ranging professional experiences in helping distressed companies to restructure and turnaround, he has observed lots of organizational patterns that may have contributed to tough times.
In the COVID era, just about every company experienced elements of turnaround. In this first segment of a two-part episode, Sean shares some of his insights and advice to leaders to draw lessons from our collective experiences during the pandemic, how to avoid pitfalls and ways to watch for warning signs within their own organizations that things may be headed south.
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Turnaround Mindset (Part 2) with Sean McGuire
Sean is a turnaround guru. In his wide ranging professional experiences in helping distressed companies to restructure and turnaround, he has observed lots of organizational patterns that may have contributed to tough times.
In this second part of our epic conversation together, Sean and I discuss:
- A therapy metaphor for adopting a turnaround mindset
- How to develop a coalition on your team to get ideas heard
- An argument for in-person work (vs. remote) to facilitate healthy friction on a team
We also dig into Sean's questions about the senior living industry at 25 min. 31 sec.
- How has senior living been disrupted in the last 15-20 years (pre-COVID)?
- Making senior living a service and not just a place.
- An idea for a senior services marketplace.
Summary of episodes 1 and 2 in one sentence: the best time to face disruption is as a healthy company when you have all the resources to address it.
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