Joining A Private Equity Portfolio Company? Converge Twice

When you join a private equity portfolio company, understand that you, and everyone else, are ultimately working for the “PE fund’s” investors.

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What VW’s New CEO Must Do To Get The Company Back On Track

Instead of inspiring others to realize a meaningful shared purpose, VW’s leaders let everybody come up with whatever they thoughts was useful.

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DowDuPont New Executive Chairman Jeff Fettig’s Real Job

Shame on you if you don’t identify all the known and possible risks in advance of starting a new role.

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Onboarding Into A Disaster Like Puerto Rico’s Destination Marketing

Shame on you if you don’t identify all the known and possible risks in advance of starting a new role.

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The Power Of Starting Like You Have No Power

It’s far better to build mutually valuable relationship with a relatively small set of central connectors and brokers, than to build acquaintances with a wide range of peripheral players.

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Gap CEO Jeff Kirwan Pays The Price For Failing To Deliver Results

Without a real, meaningful change in direction, the Gap story is not going to have a happy ending.

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Executive Onboarding Note: Stuart Whiley, CEO Of ASC

The less that changes about you and your direction the better. Keep eschewing the perks. Keep leading as a coach and facilitator. Not everything has to be jarring.

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Executive Onboarding Note: Steve Presley CEO Nestle USA

Put in place people and systems to see changes, assess changes, change direction in accordance with those changes

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