If you’re not growing, you’re dying.

Businesses should be constantly transforming – change should be a key strand in your corporate DNA.

Smart businesses recognise the need to change, even at their peak – when they have the time and money to innovate and evolve, positioning themselves ahead of their competition. You don’t want to miss the boat and only realise need to transform or pivot when it’s too late.

Successful transformations are all about simplicity and speed. Boiling the ocean, rabbit holes, complex and convoluted strategies just aren’t helpful. Working out what’s good and what’s bad, what to keep, what to fix, what to get rid of and how, can be overwhelming in the context of minimising cost and maximising opportunity with a quickly diminishing timeline.

Confronting difficult truths about what is working in your business and what’s holding you back can be difficult. Finding solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems often just requires some new perspective.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill.

Never let a good crisis go to waste. From adversity comes opportunity and smart businesses use forced change to reimagine, reinvent and reposition. It’s almost never too late. Successful turnarounds focus on the core business worth retaining and fighting for whilst identifying, testing & developing new opportunities.

It’s all about resilience and tenacity … and time … so speed is critical. Controlling & optimising cashflow, rationalising operations & eliminating unproductive costs are all key to a stabilisation program to extend your cash runway and to create time and space to reposition. But it’s also about change – and knowing what to change can be a challenge.

You can’t recover and then transform. You need to transform first to enable the recovery. The momentum you create from driving change to transform becomes the fuel for growth and new beginnings.