Executive Support
As a leader, you may wonder where to turn to get a blunt reality check. You can be assured John’s fresh, unbiased perspective is untainted by special interests or hidden agenda’s. He will provide you with clear, crisp opinion grounded in reality; John will cut through the smoke and mirrors that occlude the real intent of cliques, factions, vendors or other driven by their interests, not yours.
As a leader, you will often need to prepare for a meeting where significant decisions will be on the table and you suspect or know that those at the table are neither unbiased nor independent. How can you possibly make the right decision? John will arm you with the right questions and wherewithal to probe the answers.
As a leader, you will sometimes need to distance yourself from debate or discussion. Consider the merits of John acting on your behalf - as a catalyst to bring conflicting parties together, an arbitrator to solve grievances, a gunslinger to lay down the law, a mentor to those who are willing but challenged to make improvement happen as it should, etc.
We are often asked to deal with the issues of Corporate/Subsidiary Interlock from three interrelated yet diverse viewpoints.
1. Corporate Leaders ask us to help them propel and compel the deployment of corporate business improvement initiatives across the spectrum of their subsidiary holdings. Given the typical diversity of subsidiary structures, their business focus and the people who run them - this is no small task yet we are ideally positioned to provide support in this critical area by virtue of the real worlds expertise we have gained and used to advantage to manage differing opinions, methods and perspectives.
2. Leaders of ‘subsidiary’ organizations are expected to manage the business, meet quota, outwit the competition, exceed marketplace expectations, etc. AND comply with any and all ‘requests’, ‘suggestions’, directives and imperatives from Multi National, Conglomerate or Parent Company Head Offices. Similar directives flow like water in corporate structures with a mix of management methods and structures like Market or Product Verticals, Regional (Multi Country) Management or Functional (Matrix) Management Models and more. Our background includes significant experience bridging the mechanic, dynamic, optic and politic dichotomy between subsidiary management and corporate dictate.
3. Corporate decisions in the realms of technological and process re-engineering imperatives carry a host of implications for subsidiaries and many of these implications are foreign, even of no consequence, to those who made the decision. Our unique perspective provides a basis
for bridging the gaps and disconnects that arise between those who conceive corporate improvement initiatives and those who have to bear the
consequences.
Depending upon your circumstances or preferences you might wish to retain John as your personal advisor or have him work with key members of your management team to ensure that your objectives are realized – the choice is yours.
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