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  • The Turnaround: A True Story About ABC Computer Distributors and How They Went from Red to Black

  • Robert S. Curry’s Losses to Profits Series
  • By: Robert S. Curry
  • Narrated by: Robert Plank
  • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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The Turnaround: A True Story About ABC Computer Distributors and How They Went from Red to Black

By: Robert S. Curry
Narrated by: Robert Plank
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ABC Computer Distributors - a Pennsylvania-based company - was heading for bankruptcy due to poor leadership, causing substantial operating losses. In The Turnaround, Robert Curry accounts the actual events of this successful turnaround, describing the profit-improvement process he used to grow the company from losing almost $1 million on $48 million in sales to reporting $4 million in profit on $130 million in sales in nine months.

Bob wrote this book to demonstrate that one person can have an impact on a company. Not only an impact, but a significant impact - from substantial loss to substantial profit in just three quarters of a year. By eliminating nonproductive employees; generating operating budgets; implementing controls over spending; improving financial reporting; upgrading corporate policies, efficient communications, and procedures; and initiating corporate and personal goals, ABC Computer Distributors became profitable in the first 30 days of the turnaround.

In this audiobook, Bob shares his profit-improvement skills and tasks with you so you can use them in your company or organization to improve your profits. Much of the turnaround of ABC Computer Distributor focused on sales growth and employee productivity. In Bob’s first book, From Red to Black: A Business Turnaround, the story of the turnaround focused on improving the management and operations. While both of these books are about turnarounds, they are unique, informative stories on how Bob made these organizations profitable.

©2018 Robert S. Curry (P)2019 Robert S. Curry
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Good info but really needs an editor

I struggled between 3 stars and 4. I’m only halfway through and like the story but the writing is so tough to listen to. Some sentences are not exactly this, but not far off: he said to me. I wrote myself a note. He did not do that I said. I will not he answered. Where are you. Ok Bob! Ugh! But the business insights are almost worth the pain. Pretty please with sugar on top hire an editor for the next book.

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Wow

Bob's approach to story telling makes this book fly by. He is clearly a very passionate individual who loves what he does. 10/10 read this book!

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Interesting, but could be better

I enjoyed the story and the mechanics of how he turn this company around. I believe that the story would’ve been better if he had left out a lot of unnecessary detail like what he ordered for meals, and his obsession with coffee. The narrator was far too deliberate his delivery. There was no attempt to bring the words to life. It sounded like a 5th grader reading words off of a page

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