MPAA-rated “G” here. Cross-posted at PFF, rated “R”.

About a million years ago I satisfied a b-school homework assignment by writing on this very subject, Job wrestling Gabriel to create “value” from a [non-performing] operation. That would be you, multiplied. The text is reproduced below. Go on, suck up a portion of my tuition, valued at $95K (2002 USD excluding room and board), entitled “Leading Strategic Transformation.” The purpose of the elective was to identify C-class mechanisms of crisis management and their instrumentality in engineering corporate “turn-around” scenarios and option calls.

That means playing the odds and the capital, including you who are oblivious to your debts to corporate acculturation.