Advanced Business Consulting
Let Me Help You See the Forest and the Trees
(They Both Matter)
For more than 35 years, I have been dealing with businesses in times of crises. This has given me perspective not only on managing a crises situation, but on what could have been done to prevent the crisis in the first place. Clients have taken advantage of this perspective for years as “part of the litigation.” Roughly at the time when my hair started getting greyer and then my age crossed into the “three score” years, I’ve increasingly been asked to help “outside the litigation.” I have now formalized those services. These are “big picture” engagements that do not call into play particular lawyer work, like contract drafting. The bottom line is I can help you make good decisions by helping you identify risks and goals, and to support your choice of solutions. Crises and potential crises occur over the following timeline. Here’s how I can help:
- Identification of “the problem.” Your business can make mistakes by solving an ill-defined problem. Is the problem the hole in the dam, or the integrity of the dam as a whole, or what to do if the dam bursts.
- Mapping all possible solutions to the problem. Laser-focus on the first perceived good idea eliminates investigation of better ones. It’s been said that if the government were left in charge of addressing polio, we’d have the best iron lungs in the world, but no vaccines.
- Determining barriers to implementation, and overccoming them. Your goal is on the other side of the hill. What are the costs and risks associated with going over, around or even through the hill.
- Reacting to the unanticipated. This is often when the wheels come off. As with all problems, delay is both the default position and the worst position.
- Learning from what went wrong. Let’s be clear — no project is perfectly implemented. Whether it had cost overruns, internal disputes, bumps along the way, or the dreaded service (or filing) of a lawsuit, there are things to be learned for the next go-round.
Hire me to help you work through these issues.