Stop the Bleeding: A mind shift through business crisis management... Thinking and doing everything differently
By Brian Sands
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AS A BUSINESS LEADER WITH YOUR BACK TO THE WALL, HOW WILL YOU STOP THE BLEEDING IN YOUR BUSINESS? HOW WILL YOU GET TO A SUSTAINABLE NEXT?
As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates our freefall into global recession, Stop The Bleeding represents the mind shift necessary to see, think, plan and act differently through crisis.
Brian Sands
Brian Sands is a business problem solver, as an interim executive leading organisational change, and as an independent advisor to boards and executive teams designing strategy, managing risk, and creating opportunity. His insights have been gained through frontline hands-on and hands-in ownership and experience in high-value, high-risk, low-margin construction and property businesses.
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Stop the Bleeding - Brian Sands
THE ONLY REASON TO LOOK BACKWARDS IS TO LEARN
In any business intervention – whether it be crisis management, product development or, say, a process improvement project – to clearly articulate what success needs to look like by when, you need to draw a line in the sand. A that was then, and this is now, or next, kind of approach.
To provide context around the mind shift I have learnt that enabled me to stop the bleeding in my business, this chapter is about my what and my how from a personal perspective. I go deep in places, and I am willing to do so because not only did I learn plenty from these experiences, I hope you might stretch your thinking also.
If necessity is the mother of invention, economic volatility, global political uncertainty and technological acceleration are the fathers of reinvention. I have drawn a line in the sand a few times, and I am sure I will do so a few more times before I am done.
I am grateful for being born with DNA that has enabled a decent work ethic. It instilled in me the interdependency of effort and outcome, the notion of ambition and personal improvement, and drew me in to the concept of risk and reward.
Work ethic created my first ‘official’ business as a subcontract carpenter at 22, building house frames with my brother Mark and some small commercial projects around Melbourne for another guy. I was working out of the back of my 1971 white Ford XW station wagon – affectionately known as the White Rhino – with my first direct report, Chloe the Blue