Bill Canady argues you don't need board approval or a full team overhaul to drive rapid improvement. Replace one or two key people, follow a 100-day, 4-document roadmap, and show results before asking permission.
You don't need a new team. One or 2 people need to change, not 8. And you don't need your board's permission to start. You need their acknowledgement at the end. This is not a transformation. It's 100 days and 4 documents. And look, you can't fall out of a basement. So, whatever shape the basement is in, it's the floor. There's only one direction from here. First, let me put you somewhere. It's Tuesday morning in month 4. You're in a board meeting and it's going fine. Nobody raised their voice. You've handled every question that's come at you, and somewhere around minute 40, a director asks you something perfectly reasonable. He asks where the margin improvement in the back of the half is coming from, and you answer him. You answer him well because you know your business. You talk about pricing work, the cost initiative, the customer that ramped. You walk out of that room and you think it went fine. Well, here's what actually happened.
