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Ever tried to get a group of squirrels to move in the same direction? Welcome to modern teamwork! Herding Squirrels is a podcast that explores the chaotic, wonderful, and sometimes maddening world of teams in our hyperconnected age.
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M&A Is Financial. Integration Is Human. (opens the original)
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Sachin Gulati is an M&A integration leader at HP with almost 14 years of deal experience across HP, Google, and management consulting. In this episode of Herding Squirrels, Sachin explains why M&A gets sold as a financial transaction but wins or loses as a human transition, and why even a good playbook only gets you 50 to 60 percent of the way there. He shares the three things he listens for on day one (fear, pride, and uncertainty) and the three habits that build employee trust during a merger.
Why First-Time PE Acquisitions Fail (opens the original)
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Kit Lisle is the founder of operators.pe, the world’s leading peer community for private equity backed executives and operating partners, and a fractional operating partner with 30 years in the PE ecosystem. In this episode of Herding Squirrels, Kit breaks down why roughly 80 percent of founder led companies acquired by private equity for the first time go off the rails, and the five specific failure points that cause it. If you’re leading a team through a PE acquisition, a board transition, or
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