by Gary Sutton
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"If you're the CEO of a struggling business, let's hope we never meet. I'm Gary Sutton, a turnaround guy. When I arrive you leave. Results usually get better and fast."-from the Introduction to The Six-Month Fix
Lessons on how to save a sick company from a top turnaround CEO
One of the business world's most sought-after "trauma specialists," Gary Sutton has salvaged nearly a dozen failing businesses, including everything from printing, garbage hauling, and burglar alarm companies to aerospace, satellite communications, and software firms. In The Six-Month Fix, Sutton takes readers behind the PR curtain to give them an intimate look at the situations he faced coming into several sick companies and how he fixed what ailed them. Writing in his trademark frank, funny, no-holds-barred style, he shares his war stories and the lessons he learned about what it takes to save a faltering business. Not for the faint of heart, The Six-Month Fix offers honest, straight-from-the-hip advice for managers in training for the business fight of their lives.
Gary Sutton (La Jolla, CA) sits on several private boards, is a Director of WebSense (WSBN-Nasdaq), and is the author of several books.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 A book that shares life experience, 2007-07-13
The kind of book that shares life experience. I also work with turnarounds and it is interesting to find similar experiences occuring in different business environments. I am giving 4 stars, and not 5 stars, because I missed objective analysis methods. Anyone that want to work in a company turnaround should read this book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
A very good checklist for the restructuring professional, 2007-01-10
I am an insolvency practitioner and found the book easy to read and very instructive. It has been very useful to me as a "how to" handbook for addressing informal restructuring assignments.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Common Sense in Print, 2006-07-11
Most of the ideas in this book seem like common sense once you read them. The catch is that most people don't think this way until they read it. I found the book an enjoyable read and gave some clear step by step ways to improve a business that's in trouble. I would recommend it to any and all even those of us who are "Recovering MBA's" can be reminded of a thing or two.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Fascinating and Distinctive, 2006-01-15
This is a fascinating book and a distinctive one. To begin with, the author does not claim to have a magic formula for success and instead focuses on the many conceptually simple but difficult tasks required to make a success of a failing business. Some of the suggested strategies make me uncomfortable because of the implications for employees, but never do the strategies seem mean-spirited -- they just seem necessary.
The book was given to me as a gift, and after I started reading it, I couldn't stop. It ended up reading it in less than a full weekend, but parts of it have always stuck with me. I can't summarize it any better than the front flap: "Direct, funny, and brutally honest".
2 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
 Lousiest book on turnarounds, 2005-01-17
Ive read a lot of business books but this one ranks at the bottom. It wasnt written: it was most probably taped during the authors spare time i.e. commuting in traffic, traveling etc. The book has advice like "attack drugs and alcohol at work...".
Some chapters, like the last, ramble on with no real objective. Ive never returned a book to Amazon but there always a first
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