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What does this decision actually do to profit?

What does this decision actually do to profit?What does this decision actually do to profit?What does this decision actually do to profit?

 For the Accountant, the Plant Manager, and the Owner who all ask a version of this question. 




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Jay David spent 30 years on both sides of the ledger.

 A cost accountant, then as a COO who used that training to see past every framework sold as the answer. They're tools. None of them replace the question. 

three paths for leaders

Operations Leaders

Accountants & Finance Professionals

Accountants & Finance Professionals

Pain: You're making 6 figure calls with financial information you don't fully trust - and no one taught you how to read it.

Help:  Start with Turnaround Revelations. Then go deeper with the Operations Finance course — curriculum below. 

Operations Finance Course

Accountants & Finance Professionals

Accountants & Finance Professionals

Accountants & Finance Professionals

Pain:  You know the numbers cold. You don't know if you're ready to own what happens on the floor.

Help:  Take the Gap Assessment — a short diagnostic on where your financial thinking stands today, and exactly what's between you and operations leadership. 

Take the Gap Assessment

Executives, Founders & Owners

Accountants & Finance Professionals

Executives, Founders & Owners

Pain:  You're the one who pays for the gap, whether or not anyone tells you it exists.

Help:  Executive Mentoring — a standing relationship with someone who's read both sides of your business. 

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What does the gap look like?

It begins with the assumption that the Numbers and Reality are the same.

Everyone in this picture stands somewhere. Finance and accounting live on the reported line. Operations lives on the actual line. Owners and executives own the distance between them — whether or not anyone's told them how wide it is. 

Every number below is something he actually did

$300M+

Chapter 11

30+ Years

 Manufacturing enterprise, COO experience 

30+ Years

Chapter 11

30+ Years

 Across finance, operations and executive and strategic leadership 

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

 Turnarounds, integrations & consolidations 

Then he wrote down what it taught him

Turnaround Revelations

What it actually takes to save a failing business — told through real companies and real stakes, not theory. Amazon's #1 bestseller in Production & Operations Management. 

Read the Books

The Gap — A Business Novel

A business novel about the distance between numbers and reality — and what happens to the company caught in it. 

This is what indecision is costing you.

Ready to Close the Gap?

 A 20-minute call is enough to find out how wide it is — and whether closing it is a 90-day project or something bigger. 

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