Tag: acquisition
How Kenexa CEO Rudy Karsan is Making the Salary.com Acquisition Work
Former Ernst & Young Partner and Coca Cola CEO Doug Ivester once told me that 30% of acquisitions fail because the acquiring company overpays and saddles itself with unrealistic pro…
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Fundamental Onboarding Beliefs
Purposeful integration is essential This is why it’s so important to get stakeholders aligned around the organization’s purpose, a Total Onboarding Program and recruiting brief before starting to recruit. Get…
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Communication Blockages in Onboarding
I was in China last week where internet access to anything related to PrimeGenesis is completely blocked. Couldn't use PrimeGenesis email. Couldn't look at PrimeGenesis websites. And, as I'm sure,…
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Poor Hand-Offs: The Overriding Onboarding Issue
Over the past several weeks, we’ve laid out 11 onboarding issues with 11 suggestions for how to deal with them. (They are recapped below.) The overriding issue The overriding issue…
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Adapt
From the very beginning, PrimeGenesis has focused on executive onboarding and transition acceleration. Not all transitions involve someone switching companies or divisions or even offices. Some of the most complex…
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Hot Landings: onboarding into trouble
Getting a head start, taking control of the message and building or transforming the team are important in any new job situation. They are that much more important when a…
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