Small businesses power America. Defined as firms with fewer than 500 employees, they provide jobs for more than half of our private workforce and represent over 90 percent of all businesses in the United States. In our changing, uncertain economic climate, The 24-Hour Turnaround (3rd Edition), with its focus on stories of small and family-controlled entrepreneurial business success in a turbulent economy, is as relevant as ever.
The authors, Jeffrey S. Davis and Mark Cohen, are uniquely qualified to write this book, a compilation of case studies highlighting entrepreneurial styles, innovations, and triumphs. Since 1985, Jeffrey's consulting company, Mage LLC, has provided guidance, expertise, and counsel to over 700 small and family-operated businesses and organizations on issues ranging from short- and long-term strategy, marketing, and sales to organizational and transitional issues. This book identifies and examines the most common situations Mage LLC has encountered with entrepreneurs and owners of private companies. The case studies, based on the authors' extensive experiences with individual entrepreneurs and their organizations, highlight means and methods by which business leaders can achieve their visions and goals, regardless of the nature of the market or the economy.
The 24-Hour Turnaround (3rd Edition) focuses on leadership, attitudes, strategies, and tactics. It provides a blueprint for entrepreneurs to navigate their organizations through uncertain and always-shifting economic environments. It illustrates the benefits of change and teaches entrepreneurs how to go about making real change that creates business stability, growth, and long-term success. It narrates and outlines situations that entrepreneurs can immediately relate to with practical examples and offers models for making quick and concrete modifications, remaining open to new ideas while still honoring tradition and company history.
Designed as a practical and easy-to-read guide, The 24-Hour Turnaround (3rd Edition) enlightens and empowers the enterprising organizational leader or entrepreneur who wishes to steer a business to continuous success, all within the challenges of a shifting, uncertain economy.
Jeffrey S. Davis is CEO and Founder of Mage LLC, one of New England's leading strategic organizational management and family consulting firms. Jeffrey is Chairman of the Board for both: MTP Software, a leader in the sports CRM category and The Social Scene, a breakthrough social app. Jeffrey is founder and hosts the daily internet business radio show "Radio Entrepreneurs". Sitting on numerous private and not for profit boards, he has also been an adjunct lecturer of entrepreneurship at Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. A nationally and internationally sought after speaker, Davis is regularly called upon by the business leaders and media as a resource on managing the challenges faced by entrepreneurial leadership and family-run organizations trying to advance and achieve greater success in today's shifting economy. JDavis@Mageusa.com
Mark Cohen, Director of Human Resources at Stavis Seafoods, Inc., has vast experience as an external consultant and internal human resources leader. His diverse background includes over thirty years of working with international and US technology companies in the computer, healthcare, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and distribution industries. Cohen's track record includes positions as Worldwide Director of Human Resources at Phillips Medical Systems and a Senior Manager at Maxtor Corporation. He also spent sixteen years in human resources management at Digital Equipment Corporation and held training and human resources positions at Fidelity, General Mills, and Polaroid. Cohen0778@gmail.com
