Category: Private Equity & M&A
What Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank’s Middle Managers Must Do To Survive Their Merger
Four steps middle managers at Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank should take if they want to survive a coming merger.
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Reducing CEO Turnover and Optimizing Returns in Private Equity
Private equity CEOs fall into 2 broad groups. Both are confronted with the need to adjust their leadership approaches in order to succeed
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3 Focus Areas for Executives Transitioning to Middle Market Private Equity
Focus on three areas to manage the risks and realize your opportunity during this transition to Middle Market Private Equity.
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Why You Must Take a Strategic Approach to Risk Management
Every organization must take a comprehensive, top to bottom, strategic approach to risk management involving everyone in the organization.
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Why The Merger Of Essilor And Luxottica’s Cultures Is The Key To Extraordinary Value Creation
On the surface, everything about combining Essilor and Luxottica makes complete sense. Yet there’s a fundamental cultural disconnect that risks haunting the merger for years to come. The more leadership…
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Why Managing Away Uncertainty is Seductively Counterproductive
Progress requires people to push the edges, challenge the status quo, break the boundaries into the realm of uncertainty
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The Special Risks Of Onboarding Into Procter & Gamble, Given It Hires So Few From Outside
For most of its history Procter & Gamble (P&G) promoted only from within. They did not hire anyone at anything other than entry-level positions. As part of changing that they…
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Onboarding Risks In Joining A Competitor Like United Airlines’ New President Is Doing
There are two sides to today’s headline: “United Hires President Dropped By American.” It’s a major coup for United, giving it more bench strength when it needs it. And it…
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What Microsoft Must Do To Onboard LinkedIn’s Leadership Successfully
CEOs Satya Nadella and Jeff Wiener must get a head start, manage the message and build the new, combined leadership team.
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