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Martin Treppa

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Cleveland
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Covers:  Martin Treppa covers People Management on Medium.com, Twitter and his personal website, MartinTreppa.com as well as https://martintreppa.com/martin-treppa
Doesn't Cover: Anything to do with opera!
Martin Treppa is a Director of Operations and Strategy executive focused on operational transformation, margin expansion, and enterprise growth. Executive MBA

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Martin Treppa is a Strategy and Operations leader specializing in post-acquisition integration, operational turnarounds, and enterprise transformation across financial services and private equity-backed companies.

Martin Treppa has led large-scale initiatives including multi-billion-dollar integrations, enterprise platform adoption across 18,000+ employees, and operational performance improvements in complex, regulated environments.

His work focuses on translating strategy into execution—aligni…

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How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 1)

How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 1)

How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 1) From 2007 to 2011, I served as an Officer in the United States N…

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How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 2)

How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 2)

How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 2) Let's start with the one person we've all wanted to fire - but r…

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How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 3)

How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 3)

How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 3) Let me tell you about "Johnson." That wasn't his real name. Seam…

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How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 4)

How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 4)

How to Manage People You Can't Fire (Part 4) Lieutenant Stevens faced separation from the Navy within three m…

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What Enterprise Leaders Get Wrong About People Management | Martin Treppa

What Enterprise Leaders Get Wrong About People Management | Martin Treppa

What Enterprise Leaders Get Wrong About People Management | Martin Treppa Okay, taking a break from my series…

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Revenue vs. Margin = Smoke vs. Fire

Revenue vs. Margin = Smoke vs. Fire

Revenue vs. Margin = Smoke vs. Fire Most companies don't have a revenue problem. They have a discipline probl…

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Culture Doesn’t Eat Strategy for Breakfast — It Decides if It’s Served at All

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By Martin Treppa
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Culture Doesn’t Eat Strategy for Breakfast — It Decides if It’s Served at All Every executive has heard the phrase, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” It’s become one of the most repeated ideas in business. It’s also one of the least examined. The implication is that culture always wins. That’s true — but incomplete. Strategy and culture are not competitors. Culture is the operating system that determines whether strategy can execute.
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After Graduation, Leave the Academics, Keep the Connections

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By Martin Treppa
| Medium
After Graduation, Leave the Academics, Keep the Connections One of the biggest misconceptions about Executive MBA programs is that the value ends at graduation and now students shift from academics to execution. In reality, graduation is where the long-term value creation actually begins.
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Why Post-Merger Integrations Fail (And What Operators Actually Miss)

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By Martin Treppa
| Medium
Why Post-Merger Integrations Fail (And What Operators Actually Miss) Most post-merger integrations don’t fail because the strategic thesis was wrong. They fail because the “Value Creation Plan” hits the reality of organizational friction, and leadership lacks the operational machinery to push through it.
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How is social media changing news?

People share perspectives less and go straight to sites that tell them what they want to know

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

I don't care if I can use it in life. Make it sincere.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

I actually wrote a paper on a true story about contact lenses for chickens during my EMBA at Michigan. I received the top score in the class