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Honor Technology’s Seth Sternberg On The Need To Integrate For Success In M&A

Business Management, Executive Onboarding, Leadership Skills, Merger & Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions, New Leader's Playbook, Onboarding, Shifting Sands, Strategy

When Seth Sternberg’s Honor Technology bought Home Instead, their initial thinking was to keep the two businesses separate. They quickly realized they needed to integrate the two entities to optimize learning, systems and impact. It was a critical realization as...

How To Avoid The Three Main Derailers Of Merger And Acquisitions’ Success

Business Management, Executive Onboarding, Leadership Skills, Merger & Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions, New Leader's Playbook, Onboarding, Shifting Sands, Strategy

Some hear merger and acquisition. Some hear Scylla and Charybdis. In either case, most get lured to their death or destruction. While the lure of Sirens was a myth, we do know that 83% of mergers and acquisitions fail to increase value. And we know why. They fail...

Three Key Tools To Help Direct And Support Leaders Of Mergers And Acquisitions

Executive Onboarding, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Merger & Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions, Shifting Sands, Strategy

Mergers and acquisitions are crucibles of leadership as 83% of them fail to deliver the desired results. Those successfully directing and supporting M&A leaders clarify the objectives, plans, progress and future expectations. Three tools enable that: 1....

Why The Critical Choice In Corporate Triage Is What To Stop Doing

Contingency Planning, Executive Onboarding, First Time Leaders, Leadership Skills, Mitigate Risks, Ongoing Comunication

Stop trying to fix the unfixable whether they are projects, programs, businesses, or people. In general, triage involves sorting victims into those that don’t need help now, do need help now, and can’t be helped. The critical choice is between those needing...

Why New Leaders Must Not Let Their Predecessors Distract Them

Adjusting, Communication Basics, Executive Onboarding, First Time Leaders, Leadership Skills, Ongoing Comunication, Relationships

Pay attention. It’s an essential choice for an executive onboarding into a new role – what you and others pay attention to. Focusing on your predecessor’s mistakes is a distraction from your call to action and is especially painful for your predecessor’s supporters....

The Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Sub-Playbook #7 – Change Management

Adjusting, Communication Basics, Executive Onboarding, Mergers & Acquisitions, Service, Shifting Sands

Per our earlier article on A Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Playbook For Success, avoid the traps of 1) poor strategic focus, 2) poor cultural integration and/or 3) poor delivery of synergies by leveraging the full playbook and its seven...