The Turnaround Leader
Advantage Media Group (Verlag)
979-8-89188-034-4 (ISBN)
Wes Wheeler has spent his life fixing things. From a young age, the New York native witnessed the decline of his family’s multi-generational boat business, watching it, quite literally, burn to the ground. While sorting through the ashes of the once successfully run company alongside his father, Wheeler’s future was decided for him. Instead of succumbing to the idea that businesses disintegrate and leave behind hordes of unemployed workers, their mission buried beneath burned bridges and abandoned dreams, Wheeler opted to arm himself with a work ethic built on trust, drive, and dogged determination.
In The Turnaround Leader, Wheeler recounts his decades of managing projects for rising and falling companies, reshaping organizational missions, and restructuring business models to better the working community. Wheeler’s lifetime of ambition was launched during his humble beginnings as a paper delivery boy, where he discovered the little shifts that make a big difference, from the way he angled the papers he threw, to how he engaged with customers and mapped out his routes.
He went on to work for years in a hardware store, earning money for college and refining his work ethic. These early lessons compounded over time and bolstered him while he faced off with economic headwinds and misguided business leaders who preceded him, his most rewarding challenge being his leadership role during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a world where business models are rapidly changing and employment is never promised, Wheeler’s ability to adapt is both inspiring and achievable.
Wheeler takes the reader on a journey through the decades he spent fixing and reshaping companies, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. From navigating hostile company takeovers to carving out a $10 billion vertical business unit while combatting a global pandemic, Wheeler’s career has been marked by adversity and sustained by dogged determination. In a world replete with bad business dealings and muddled employee communication, Wheeler’s ability to stay the course while maintaining integrity has allowed him to transform the lives of many professionals and workplaces.
As Wheeler tugs you along through the historical moments that shaped him as a professional, he offers hard-earned advice and tools for problem-solving that are scattered throughout the prose in entertaining doses of reality. Never one to shy away from the truth, Wheeler peels back the layers of the sometimes-deceptive world of business, teaching you that you can never get too comfortable but also sheltering you under his umbrella of hope. With a main character who is both heroic and relatable, The Turnaround Leader is a must-read for anyone longing to lead in today’s unsteady world of business.
WES WHEELER is a career business executive with deep international experience in nearly all parts of the healthcare industry and a five-time CEO/president/chairman of several public and privately owned companies. He is known for his ability to lead companies through challenging restructuring circumstances while building productive work cultures. After spending decades fixing other businesses, Wheeler has shifted his focus to Board work and advising private equity firms. He and his wife have restarted his family’s boat business, the Wheeler Yacht Company, breathing life back into the company responsible for building Pilar, the vessel where Ernest Hemingway penned The Old Man & the Sea. Wes resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife Marianne, and the couple enjoys spending time aboard their yacht, Legend, off the coast of Hilton Head Island. They have two adult children who both recently married. Greg and his wife, Natalie, live in Newport Beach, California. Erica and her husband, Josh Kule, live and work in London, United Kingdom.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.09.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | Charleston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-89188-034-4 / 9798891880344 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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