Turning a Business Around: How to Spot the Warning Signs and Ensure a Business Stays Healthy
Author(s): Mark Blayney (Author)
Publisher: How To Books
Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2002
Language: English
Print length: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1845280636
ISBN-13: 9781845280635
Book Description
There is lots of advice around for starting a business, but less for when it is established but un-profitable, or gets into difficulties. This is a guide to help you when the going gets tough. It acts as a smoke detector – to help spot the early warning signs of approaching difficulty, and as a fire extinguisher – for immediate use in a crisis. It will help you to turn a business around by explaining: why businesses fail, how to spot the warning signs, key ways to stabilise your finances, how to devise a realistic recovery plan, and how to manage that plan into effective action.
Contents: 1. Turnaround; SECTION 1 – Recognise the need for a fast turnaround; 2. Spotting the warning signs of business failure; 3. Understand why businesses fail; SECTION 2 – Stabilise your finances; 4. Understanding your immediate financial position; 5. Managing a real cash crisis; 6. Understanding and controlling your financial performance; SECTION 3 – Devise a plan; 7. Setting the strategy; 8. Managing marketing; SECTION 4 – Make it happen; 9. Managing change; 10. Managing the risks.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘An invaluable guide to companies in trouble or in need of a tool to help them out of a crisis.’ — Business Money
‘Inspiring and full of proven steps to help you trade out of tough times.’ —
HSBC Business Update
From the Publisher
This is a guide to help when the going gets tough. It acts as a smoke detector: to help spot the early warning signs of approaching difficulty, and as a fire extinguisher for immediate use in a crisis.
About the Author
Mark Blayney worked for one of the UK’s leading accountancy firms as partner in charge of strategic consultancy and turnaround business. He now runs a strategy consultancy and financing brokerage which specialises in turnarounds and business revenues. He lives in Bishop Auckland, Durham, UK.
Tuberculosis is characterised as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from the archaeological record that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its human hosts have been together for a very long time. The very mention of tuberculosis brings to mind romantic images of great literary figures pouring out their souls in creative works as their bodies were being decimated by consumption. It is a disease that at various times has had a certain glamour associated with it.
From the medieval period to the modern day, Helen Bynum explores the history and development of tuberculosis throughout the world, touching on the various discoveries that have emerged about the disease over time, and focussing on the experimental approaches of Rene Laennec (1781-1826) _ and Robert Koch (1842-1910). Bynum also examines the place tuberculosis holds in the popular imagination and its role in various forms of the dramatic arts.
The story of tuberculosis since the 1950s is complex, and Bynum describes the picture emerging from the World Health Organization of the difficulties that attended the management of the disease in the developing world. In the meantime, tuberculosis has emerged again in the West, both among the urban underclass and in association with a new infection – HIV. The disease has returned with a vengeance – in drug-resistant form. The story of tuberculosis is far from over.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Helen Bynum has written a book not only full of diverting asides but also of urgent importance. (Richard Horton, Guardian)
Highly recommended. (
M.L. Charleroy, CHOICE)
About the Author
Helen Bynum is a freelance historian and author of Tropical Medicine in the 20th Century. Together with William Bynum, she edited Great Discoveries in Medicine and the award winning Dictionary of Medical Biography (5 vols.).
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