When business environments become challenging and/or uncertain, a steady hand with experience is needed to:

• Instill confidence
• Provide transparency
• Promote structure and discipline
• Prioritize competing priorities
• Bridge the company to the other side of the challenges

Changing course for an underperforming organization or function requires strong leadership to:

• Conduct honest assessments of the root causes for underperformance
• Be open to alternate views
• Develop action plans with expected outcomes and accountability
• Stomach growing pains associated with change
• Pivot as needed as based on continual feedback

As businesses evolve through mergers and carve-outs, successful transition rely on management to:

• Implement tools to organize the transition activity
• Establish the objectives for the end-state
• Identify and mitigate risks
• Manage the business effectively during the transition period, before the end-state is established
• Develop and implement an operating framework for newcomers