Businesses Don’t Fail They Commit Suicide: How to Survive Success and Thrive in Good Times and Bad
Larry Mandelberg
Book Description
How Healthy Is Your Successful Business?
Do constant disruptions and distractions make you feel like the business is managing you rather than you’re managing the business? Do the Board and senior managers disagree on major decisions? Is one department or department head the source of most problems? Is conflict within the leadership team undermining staff morale?
If your business is suffering from any of the above problems then it’s time to do something about it.
No business ever failed because they ran out of money. Most businesses fail because their success brings unfamiliar problems that leaders and managers do not know how to solve. Running out of money is simply a lagging indicator of prior bad decisions and a failure to anticipate change.
This book shows you how to anticipate change, manage internal conflict, and leverage it to your advantage.
With real-life stories that explore common situations, angst, and humor in ways that are understandable and insightful, Mandelberg delivers:
- The problems that come with success and how to manage them
- The infallible crystal ball that lets you see change coming before it’s too late
- Eight operational must-haves and how your organization ranks
- Exiting the ‘whack-a-mole’ cycle with problems that don’t get fixed
- Turning change done unto you into change done unto others, and of course,
- Why businesses fail
Based on over 40 years of experience and interviews with over 250 business leaders, Mandelberg explains how to avoid failure and build a strong, successful business that lasts.
About the Author
Larry Mandelberg solves complex problems and equips leadership teams with the skills to do the same.
Then again, he had a four-generation head start. This consultant, speaker and author represents the 5th generation of his family’s business, inheriting “170 years of organizational success from hides and furs to the automotive aftermarket.”
Larry has launched four start-ups, led a merger, and performed a successful turnaround. (That’s evidence of six complex problems, solved.)
He is an effective catalyst for change who achieved new levels of efficacy and growth for businesses in industries as diverse as software, automotive, education and agriculture.
A prolific writer, Larry has published more than 80 columns. As a sought-after speaker, Mandelberg has delivered more than 60 business-changing keynotes and workshops. He has been a guest on television and radio programs talking about business and entrepreneurship. Through his consulting practice he provides leadership development, executive coaching, ethics training and strategic planning to mid-sized organizations and their Boards.
Mr. Mandelberg is a student of organizational lifecycles and has developed a system to help business owners master change and create sustainable growth. His new book, Businesses Don’t Fail, They Commit Suicide provides a roadmap for executing his system.
In addition to his role as Chairman for Innovative Education Management, Larry has provided training for Cooperative Personnel Services, taught team-building classes for the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, and received his MBA from Drexel University. He has been married to his wife Nancy for 42 years and been a member of the IEM board since July 2001.
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