Acquisitions are a common growth strategy for many organizations today. But it’s a path strewn with nasty landmines: politics, distraction, talent drain, customer confusion and execution failures. Knowing where these landmines lay is the first step in reducing the M&A risk and ensuring your deal adds performance and value rather than destroying it. Here are five places where a misstep can spell disaster along the M&A path.
It's a Brave New World at the Intersection of Purpose and Profit
In a letter to the CEOs of the world’s largest public companies, BlackRock founder and chief executive Laurence Fink threw down the gauntlet, informing the companies that profits alone will no longer be enough to merit the investment firm’s support: a company must “show how it makes a positive contribution to society.”
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Mission, Vision & Values are Dead!
The tired old Mission, Vision & Values framework is known by all and remembered by none. Rather than rehash a comparison of these old terms, we think it’s time to retire them completely in favor of a new model that is more intuitive, easier to remember, and more useful to leaders and employees alike: a 3-stage rocket.