The president of a financial holding company said, “We’ve made a number of acquisitions, but we’re not hitting our objectives. We think it has to do with management teams we are inheriting. We seem to lose the strong players. It takes a year to sort out. Can you assess the acquired executives and help us make this acquisition successful?
A Vice Chairman of a major financial services group asked, “’I’ve inherited three major business units as a result of the merger. Can you help me and the business unit heads select and motivate the best talent from 85 executives in 90 days?
“Before we invest another $5 million in this company, could you assess the management team, strategy and any other issues we should be concerned about”, asked the venture capital director.
Shall we combine our profit making data center with a software group we acquired two years ago and who should run it? Asked the new CEO of the holding company.