Corporate Undertaker

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Season 1: Episode 23. What happens when the sharp-shooter brought in to save you loses his eyesight? Can you imagine a blind enforcer? In the final Episode of this first Season, The Undertaker discusses his greatest adversity -- going blind.

Season 1: Episode 22. In school if you get two out of ten right, they fail you. In business, if you get two out of ten right, they put you on the cover of a magazine. The most successful business people have failed time and time again. But that is not the message passed on to society. The expectations on most business owners are unreasonable. As such, most never measure up. Many suffer terrible mental and emotional anguish. Many drive themselves deep into a hole that they can never come out of. In this Episode, The Undertaker talks about suicide. How he has confronted clients that have wanted to kill him and themselves in the face of losing their business.

Season 1: Episode 19. Why do so many smart people make companies fail? Why do the brightest minds and hardest working people make mistakes with their financial projections? If numbers are just numbers, why are they often wrong? In this Episode, The Undertaker explains the phenomena of errors in numbers and the humans behind those mistakes. He walks through an example of where he was brought in to help a bank with a loan for a $350 million publicly traded company. Hundreds of people were looking at numbers but still couldn't figure out why they were failing at rapid speed. The Undertaker clarified it for them and helped save thousands of jobs in the process.

Season 1: Episode 20. The phrase "my gut tells me" is the biggest fallacy in the business world. Winning is a habit, unfortunately so is losing. The leaders of every failing company have trusted "their gut"...right into the gutter. In this Episode, The Undertaker teaches us to forget your gut and use your brain. He helps us understand how to get to the actual facts in any crisis. When you're short on time and cash, those facts are the difference between life and death.

Season 1: Episode 21. No one likes to leave the party early. Everyone wants an extra piece of cake when they're feeling skinny. We never see it coming when we're feeling happy. But that's exactly when most problems begin. In this episode, The Undertaker discusses how 90% of his clients' problems all began in good economic times. The recession didn't kill them, it just pushed them over the edge.

Season 1: Episode 16. Not everyone deserves to live. Sometimes, they're just not worth it. They're old, confused, corrupted or broken. Someone has to have the courage to say all of those things out loud. In this Episode, The Undertaker continues to earn his name. He confronts three separate companies with the Final Notice.

Season 1: Episode 18. Are we ever prepared to reach the end of the line? Even the best lose their shine and magic. Some realize it, some don't either way, they can't avoid judgment. In this Episode, The Undertaker confronts the painful realities of having to fire people that were once talented. Once they may have lead the organization but now, in a crisis, just don't fit.

Season 1: Episode 17. What happens when you discover that your greatest ally is a major cause for the decline of the company? What do you do when you learn that the person who hired you is stealing from a dying company? Do you turn a blind-eye or do you confront them? Knowing full well that if you confront them you might be fired and the entire company and thousands of jobs might be ruined because of this stand-off. When companies are in crisis it is paramount to create calm but what happens when the storm continues to stir from the core of decisions makers?

Season 1: Episode 14. Scared, suffocating and collapsing under the pressure of working at a failing company. This is how most employees feel in this environment. They are just trying to earn a paycheck but they are surrounded by constant rumors that there isn't enough money for payroll. The Undertaker discusses his approach to working with the living in a dying company. How he manages through the fragile, frightened and sometimes criminal psyche of employees that are just trying to survive.