Category: Private Equity & M&A
Leading An Acquisition Integration? Be ‘Brave’
We know that 83% of mergers fail. We keep doing them because the upside to success is so huge. That success comes only when the vision, values and integration are right.…
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What Tyson’s Fifth CEO In Five Years Must Do To Earn Trust
Tyson is replacing its CEO after eight months, accelerating its trend to shorter and shorter tenures of CEOs at Tyson. The new CEO, Donnie King needs to 1) Get at the…
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How To Keep Your Communication Plans From Getting Derailed By Leaks
Not going to happen. If you think leaks are not going to happen, you’re wrong. With the Internet, everyone is a publisher. So, everyone can leak your plans. You have…
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More On Mitigating The Risks Of Onboarding Into A Smaller Organization
If changing organizations for most people is like driving from Ethiopia to Kenya, for an executive onboarding from a large corporate to a smaller organization it’s like the difference between…
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What CEOs Must Do To Avoid The 83% Of Mergers And Acquisitions That Fail
The #1 job of a CEO is vision and values. That true for mergers & acquisitions (M&A) as well. Owning the vision means making sure the tactical merger & acquisition…
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40 Tips to Mitigate the 40% Executive Onboarding Failure Rate
Most of executive onboarding is just common sense. Still, different people latch on to different nuggets that help their own chances of success in a world in which 40% of new…
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The Only Way To Avoid Compound Errors In Business And Life
We all do it. We make a mistake and then, in trying to fix it, make it worse. And we all know the way to stop the cycle: own up…
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How To Mitigate The Mission-Crippling Risk Of An Executive Chair, Operating Partner, Or Over-reaching Boss
In theory, clarity around decision-rights solves a multitude of working relationship problems. In practice, over-reaching bosses, by definition, are prone to over-reach. Thus, the only way to mitigate the mission-crippling…
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How PG&E’s New CEO Patti Poppe Must Adapt To Break Its Death Spiral
Fourteen months ago, California utility PG&E CEO Geisha Williams left incoming CEO Bill Johnson three envelopes on her way out and told him to open them one at a time,…
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