Overcoming People Barriers to M&A Success

M&A can be regarded as a valuedestroying proposition, at least as it is conceived and executed by many business leaders. It is easy to be enamored with M&A’s deceptive glamour. In reality, M&A is a blunt business tactic, not a sophisticated strategy. Why does economic value so often go unrealized in M&A? Time and again, research points to “people issues” as the major spoiler. We know intuitively that people make business work. Continue reading →