self-help turnaround story

23:13 Jun 21, 2012 

Rien dans le contexte fourni ne dit que la société est en mauvaise posture. The "recovering from a difficult situation" is certainly not mandatory dans un "revirement" ou même dans un "rebondissement" (lire les définitions fournies): il suffit d'une inversion de la tendance établie - embellie des profits ou... moindres pertes! Par contre, le redressement s'appliquerait si la société sort effectivement du rouge.

"Although investors should be aware..." agit comme un avertissement: attention! ça pourrait ne pas durer! Compte tenu des risques - high cyclical exposure - nous réussissons contre toute attente, en ayant fait ce qu'il faut.

En fait, rien n'est certain dans aucune des réponses suggérées. Même "self-help" peut s'interpréter de plusieurs façons (qui n'ont, à mon avis, rien à voir avec le "développement personnel" ou ces autres "addicts" que vous mentionnez). Dans le sens "prendre les mesures nécessaires/aide-toi et le ciel t'aidera!", ce pourrait être "autogéré", "orchestré de l'intérieur", etc.

Finalement, comme c'est Willa qui détient le contexte réel - et complet -, she's the only one who can patch the story.

18:35 Jun 21, 2012 

"Although investors should be aware of the high cyclical exposure, XXX is increasingly becoming a “self-help turnaround story."

The main part: -- the good news: XXX is increasingly becoming a “self-help turnaround story."

"turnaround story": you do a "turnaround" only from a bad situation. (You can’t “get-up” if you were not down).

as in "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnaround:_Crisis,_Leadership,...]

the second part -- the added word of caution: “investors should be aware of the high cyclical exposure”

Even without a wider context, from the expressions used you can patch the story:

“XXX is slowly but surely recovering from a difficult situation, and what's more, is doing so on its own.
But this encouraging recovery could still be damaged if some unfavourable cyclical changes happen.”

12:43 Jun 19, 2012 

has become a huge industry.
Here is a good reference:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help]
Self-help, or self-improvement, is a self-guided improvement[1]—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis. Many different self-help movements exist and each has its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders. "Self-help culture, particularly Twelve-Step culture, has provided some of our most robust new language: recovery, dysfunctional families, and codependency."[2]

in this case the idea is extended from live persons to a company "that recovered from problems" on its own.