KAPOW! Hiring Experts To Help You Grow Or To Fix Your Company? Expect to Pay For The Value they Bring.
April 28, 2025
The “its” of what we do sometimes requires a single superhero, sometimes a full league of people. The “its” – grow it, find it, fund it, fix it, turn it, exit – all require a range of hardened skills and proven people with exceptional networks.
Up Up and Away
There’s a lot of organizational Kryptonite out there that needs to be solved for, dealt with, right now. There is all the uncertainty around the election, recovery from Hurricane Helene, record inflation, employee shortages (or shortages of people who are willing to work), liquidity issues and financing constraints due to interest rates, sluggish revenues, and now, depending on where a business is, there are supply chain problems.
Keep in mind, that when you do need help, when you ask a firm to have the range of Superman, the tools of Batman, and the stickiness of Spiderman, to clean up after your Rainman, MermaidMan or your Joker, don’t try to pay us like Aquaman or Antman.
We’ve learned that employee retention is far better than employee detention.
We’ve learned that we need some just in case delivery and relationships, just in case “just in time” runs out of time.
We need to be human. Humane. Caring. Compassionate.
We need to be professional.
We need to be responsive.
We need to embrace the notion that we have responsibility for the trail we traverse, and the trace we leave behind.
We can’t always be Superman.
We can be super men and women. Super people.
All of the social and economic cycles aside, we can always prevail – by changing the way we see things. We need to leverage our superpowers. We need to bend, not break things, and relationships. We need to use our x-ray vision to see what’s really going on. We need to fly above things to get a clearer view and better perspective.
You don’t need red and blue pajamas and a cape to be a hero for someone, you can just start by using your special hearing and eyesight to be a better listener and viewer, and help your client, your colleague, your stakeholders.
Keep in mind, that when you do need help, when you ask a firm to have the range of Superman, the tools of Batman, and the stickiness of Spiderman, to clean up after your Rainman, MermaidMan or your Joker, don’t try to pay us like Aquaman or Antman.
True, proven experience has value. Your value. Don’t confuse value with price.
Nanananananananana-need help?
Send us the Bat signal.
Paul Fioravanti, MBA, MPA, CTP, is the CEO & Managing Partner of QORVAL Partners, LLC, a FL-based advisory firm (founded 1996 by Jim Malone, six-time Fortune 100/500 CEO) Qorval is a US-based turnaround, restructuring, business optimization and interim management firm. Fioravanti is a proven turnaround CEO with experience in more than 90 situations in more than 40 industries. He earned his MBA and MPA from the University of Rhode Island and completed advanced post-master’s research in finance and marketing at Bryant University. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional and member of the Turnaround Management Association, the Private Directors Association, Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Association of Merger & Acquisition Advisors (AM&MA), the American Bankruptcy Institute, and IMCUSA. Copyright 2024, Qorval Partners LLC and/or Paul Fioravanti, MBA, MPA, CTP.
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