Policano, Mike
Mike Policano
Mike spent twenty-five years providing restructuring advisory services regarding financially troubled companies to financial institutions such as JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, MetLife, Bank of America, and Wachovia. He worked on hundreds of U.S. and European companies, from Arthur Andersen to Xerox.
At the beginning of his career, Mike spent seven years at Arthur Andersen, and then six years at Zolfo Cooper. In 1990, he cofounded Policano & Manzo, which was then sold to FTI Consulting in 2000. Since retiring in 2005, he has been advising the management team of Silver Point Capital, and he speaks frequently at professional firms and MBA programs, including Harvard Business School, London Business School, the University of Wisconsin, and the Yale School of Management. Mike holds a BS in accounting with honors from Villanova, where he is currently an adjunct professor in the MBA program. He is a CPA and a CIRA. Mike is also the author of Wait, I Have a Story About That! which is available at Amazon.com.
How do you deal with the possible layoff of 10,000 employees in 85 countries? How can you use inductive reasoning to assess difficult business situations? Why is an executive team so often an oxymoron? With more than sixty years of combined experience in global consulting and financial advising, Mike Policano and Gail Steinel are time-tested problem solvers who answer these and other challenging questions in the instructive and entertaining Excuse Me, Aren't You In Charge?: Insightful Snippets to Recharge Your Leadership Batteries.
From "Fine Wine the Bottom Line" to "Cheap Is Expensive," the dozens of fast-paced stories included in this book offer unique insights that take the reader far beyond conventional business wisdom. These true-life tales provide a fresh perspective on key leadership issues and will help you improve your own performance and nurture the potential leaders you meet in your professional and personal life. Written with the casual grace of old friends swapping stories around the kitchen table, Excuse Me, Aren't You In Charge? delivers energizing information in a breezy style.
Read this book. Energize your batteries. And get ready to take charge.