A Turnaround Consultant

03/12/24 • 30 min

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Diagnosing what ails struggling companies, choosing the "least crappy option", and managing constant stress with Jeff Vogelsang, a turnaround consultant. What kind of personality do you need to lead turnarounds? And what does it mean to make someone "available to industry”?

NEW BOOK ALERT!
You may be aware that I’ve written or co-written five business books, including The Power of Moments and Made to Stick. I’ve got a sixth book out now called RESET: How to Change What’s Not Working. It’s a book intended to help you and your team get unstuck, to overcome the gravity of the way things have always worked. Learn more about the book and order it here. You can also listen to it on Audible and at Apple Books.
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We've got a special bonus episode for you this week! Our friends over at Choiceology, the podcast hosted by Katy Milkman, explores the lessons that can be gleaned from behavioral economics. They tell true stories with high-stakes, sharing what the latest research tells us about making better decisions. In this episode, called “The Superforecasters”, they examine President Barack Obama’s decision to move forward with the raid on what was thought to be Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan back in 2011. But, as you’ll hear, there were doubts, and the costs of getting the mission wrong would have been massive. How was that decision made? And what can it tell us about how to make better predictions?

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What It's Like To Be... - A Turnaround Consultant

Transcript

Dan Heath: Entrepreneurs are famously optimistic. So when things aren't going well for a company, they sometimes aren't willing to admit that things aren't going well.
Jeff Vogelsang: And for a lot of CEOs, especially if you've had years and years of success, you've got a self-confidence where you think, I can do this, I can do this. And then it just isn't working. And it's very difficult to reach out and say, help me.
Dan Heath: That's Jeff Vogelsang. He's what's called a turnaround con