Corporate Undertaker: Business Lessons from the Dead and Dying

by Domenic Aversa

Overview

""A savage peek behind the corporate curtain. The power of Aversa's storytelling is undeniable. Corporate Undertaker truly is a gripping read." - Self-Publishing Review

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This book is filled with stories of fraud, mobsters, corruption, suicide, murder, arrogance and incompetence. Stories of companies in a fight for their lives against the biggest banks and law firms in the country.

"Not since first reading Stephen Covey...have I read such a life-changing, inspiring business book....A brilliant book and one I recommend to every single business owner and entrepreneur." -N.N. Light, Top 500 Amazon Reviewer

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"Readers will meet a business advocate who risked his life, health and spiritual outlook to try to save the jobs of thousands of employees." - Blue Ink Reviews

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For more than 25 years, Domenic Aversa has worked as a crisis manager and corporate restructuring professional. He has advised and operated small and middle-market companies in 45 different industries and worked through every possible extreme with his clients, including coup attempts in developing countries, the dot.com bust, 9/11, Ponzi schemes, corrupt bankers, and the Great Recession. In Corporate Undertaker: Business Lessons from the Dead and Dying, he shares his best advice for dealing with adversity and crisis each step of the way through the life of a business. From start-up to mature company, he takes you through the exciting and most worrisome moments for leaders and managers.

"An immensely readable account by a man whom companies call when all else fails." - Kirkus

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"Written by an industry expert, Corporate Undertaker is filled with drama and written with confidence and expertise!" - Clarion Forward

"CORPORATE UNDERTAKER is a glance at the dark side of the corporate world from a vastly experienced crisis consultant, penned with humor and a wealth of enthralling personal context." - Indie Reader

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950282913
Publisher:	Bublish, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

As an entrepreneur and managerial consultant, Domenic Aversa is sought after by both global business leaders and government agencies. He has actively assisted companies in dramatic transition for more than 25 years. His experience with corporate restructurings ranges from crisis management to recession preparation and recovery to global market transition. In addition to helping many businesses in the United States, he has helped command-economy companies, such as those in China and Russia, transition to market-economy practices. Domenic has served as an educational speaker and managerial advisor on international business development and insolvency issues for many business and academic institutions. Audiences have included the Harvard Business School and the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Editorial Reviews

11/06/2023

“Molestation wasn’t something I ever got used to, no matter how many times it happened,” Niami writes in this charged, searching memoir about a childhood and adolescence that found the author moving seven times in seven years. “However, having been molested since the age of seven, I was well versed on how this was going to go.” The scene that follows is, of course, wrenching, much like the scenes that preceded it, hear-trending accounts of adult men, including one she dubs “Trustworthy Monster #1,” taking cruel advantage of a child. Kissing Asphalt covers years of abuse and sexual assault, plus bullying at school and the bizarre incident where her birth father kidnapped the author and her brother and spirited them away to Baghdad for a year. Niami embarks upon this memoir, the first in a series, with a spirit of healing.

To that end, Kissing Asphalt finds Niami relishing the best that life offers: the food in Iraq, moments of trust and connection with friends and family, the pleasure of buying her first bong with money saved from work at Taco Bell or discovering her rock-star heroes, the Go-Go’s. Niami’s prose is direct and frank, like a friend disclosing intimate truths. She writes of discovering her own sexuality while watching the 1980s sitcom The Facts of Life: “Jo Polniaczek always had me a bit captivated, pondering thoughts a twelve-year-old shouldn’t but often does: sex.”

The book’s heart is Niami’s complex, touching relationship with her mother, plus her two brothers, the oldest of whom Niami didn’t know about until her teen years. Niami shares some hair-raising domestic arguments, but also attests that her mother did her best with limited tools, having come from an abusive home herself. Niami prefers to move to the next incident, whether gutting or charming, rather than dwell on analysis. Her story, though, showcases the power of facing one’s past to take power over one’s life.

Takeaway: Frank, engaging memoir of embracing life despite abuse.

Comparable Titles: R. Layla Salek’s Chaos in Color, Ariel Leve’s An Abbreviated Life.

Production grades Cover: B+ Design and typography: A Illustrations: N/A Editing: A- Marketing copy: A

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