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"As a senior professional with over 25 years of experience in executive level positions, I am very impressed with KCI’s ability to obtain lasting results. I did not imagine I could achieve so much so quickly.”
Sydney Morgan Diamond,
CFO
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Blog > Archive by category 'Mergers & Acquisitions'
“Ask any executive or manager if they’ve seen a project, acquisition, startup, etc. come crashing down (or at least significantly underperform) because of people or culture issues. Their answer undoubtedly is , “Absolutely! I see it all the time.” You would think more attention would be paid [...]
In 2008, three experts, H. Jorgensen, L. Owen, and A. Neus published a study called Making Change Work. They presented the concern of many CEOs regarding the successful completion of change efforts and projects and found that the “disparity between expecting change and being able to manage it” does not “hinge primarily [...]
People are not perfect and probably the only perfection we should strive for should be a healthy balance anyway. But achieving balance often requires having a certain level of stability; a privilege most teams in our modern age do not have. Most teams cannot find healthy balances because hardly anyone gets to do the same [...]
Janet inherited her team from a previous director who managed the department for over ten years. As a director, she had the expectation that she would invest her time in promoting the department and in strategic issues, but instead she felt she was drawn into the nitty-gritty of production. “My team is downright lazy. I [...]
“The next few weeks are going to be difficult, but now that we are past the most difficult part of the merger we will be able to work through anything that is getting in our way.”
The words still echoed in Steve’s head. Last week he finalized his team. He knew letting go of people [...]
There were many other challenges of course, but KCI knows how to address the issues of mergers and acquisitons without having to replace [...]
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