Need Advisors To Transform Your Business? Hire People That Drive Results, Not Golf Carts.
Your Business Needs Command Center Leadership, Not Caddy Shack Kumbaya
Even in the COVID-19 lockdown, we're amazed at the amount of time spent, by some of the larger firms we compete with, self-promoting their golf outings and dinners. We can't help but wonder why their clients aren't irate, and saying "is this what I'm really paying for?"
Is that leisurely approach to (supposedly) advising you, or helping run your business through a challenging time really enabling you to manage challenge and change - or helping you to sleep at night?
And if they spend six hours a day posting conversations amongst themselves, when is there time for them to work on the problems you hired them to fix?
Are you an operating executive or shareholder at a PE firm? Have you discovered that the lush fees you're paying your advisors is largely to support their social media posts of them dining, drinking, and driving golf carts?
You wanted photos of your factory floor, now optimized with LEAN and Operational Excellence, but instead you got a foursome photo of your advisors out on the links. Are your advisors turning around your business or their golf carts? Should you be heading for a profitable 13 week cash flow track when instead they're heading to the 19th hole?
Didn't you hire a consulting/advisory group to help fix financial and operational challenges? What you needed was some Jack Welch-level common sense management and instead you got golf lessons. Did you really think you could hire Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicholson to fix your company?
Don't Send In A Caddy To Play The Masters
Sure, the big name firms love your kind of projects, because they'll send in the high priced leaderboard and once engaged, you'll get the summer leaguers who 24 months ago were valet parking SUV's and making smoothies. You thought you hired star ex-CEO's and executives and you got ex-Starbucks. You thought you hired commandos and you got cadets. You paid for subject matter expertistas and instead got baristas and fashionistas.
Do you really want to hand the keys to a 50 year-old, multi generational, intensely regulated business to someone who's only been driving for 7 years?
We Don't Have Time For Foursome Photos
Our team of experienced business leaders and transformational business fixers won't post photos of ourselves at lavish dinners, playing golf and hanging out in front of fountains at hotels, because we're busy turning around businesses, driving value back into distressed companies, fixing, optimizing and restarting businesses and helping PE firms with the financial and operational challenges of their portfolio businesses.
We keep score with big changes to drive big results in small to big businesses, not fussing on how our balls keep landing in the rough and keeping score with little pencils.
This is business, there isn't an endless supply of mulligans and au jus.
We're protecting you from getting creamed by covenants while the other guys are getting creamed spinach and pontificating and whining over wine.
For us, the back nine is forecasting the last three quarters of the year. We're focused on the 13 week cash flow, not the 10 column score card. Our score card is about earnings, KPI's, EBITDA, safety, compliance, cost reduction, profit improvement, customer satisfaction, and growth.
Walking The Factory Floor, Not The Fairway
Fixing business is hard work. We're rolling up our sleeves to get to work, not parading around in pastel argyle vests. If we're wearing a vest, odds are it's a hi-vis yellow one for safety on a plant or site tour.
No lilac and salmon pants, here. We're donning PPE and steel toed boots to get in the factories and plants to find out what's really going on, not listening to your SVP's explanations about why the quarterly targets got missed again, while teeing up more excuses in spiked saddle shoes.
They might be posing with their other team members, all of whom are billing you, but we're putting the experienced generals on the front line, not Gomer Pyle.
We're interested in stakeholders, and managing high stakes operations, not merlot-fueled bromances at steakhouses.
We're creating plans for winners not planning steak dinners.
We're creating results, not reports.
The other guys might be driving golf carts but we're driving results.
If you want to keep running your business like a country club, keep hiring the country clubbers.
If you need a CEO, COO, CRO, or CFO (we believe it means "Chief Financial Officer," not "Chief Fairway Officer") don't hire a CGO (Chief Golf Officer) or a CDO (Chief Dinner Officer).
If you need impactful results to transform your business from Red2Black, instead of from lilac and pastel blue to salmon, call us. We will get you out of the rough and into the green fairways.
Qorval. 239 588 0008. www.qorval.com.
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4yPaul that was priceless! I haven't heard the name Gomer Pyle in forever!!!!!!
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4yWell Said!
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4yAnother great article, Paul!
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4yVery well said Paul! You guys are "in the trenches" - uncovering what is not working and coming up with solutions and recommendations that work!