Comments on: Are Acquisitions Making You Soft?

By: Ken Bowen

Ken Bowen — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:26:28 +0000

As summarized in “Small Giants; Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big”; intimately knowing your values, mission and purpose seem to help mitigate some of the risks associated with growth by acquisition. Demonstrating a short term bump in revenues, which is the main focus of the typical profit worshiper, seems like a hollow victory to me. Isn’t growth for the sake of growth the big culprit in many failed growth strategies? I think Buffett called it Di-worsification??

By: Vikram Singh

Vikram Singh — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:10:58 +0000

buying your customers Vs truly winning them over?? It seems challenging in every business when we look for buying business. A company process may match exactly but not the environment, not the culture, not the responce of the customers.
“Leaders make their own path by their own way.” A lot has to be changed in the internal cutural enviornment as well as in the external environment of the acuired organisation. Those who do it smartly, WIN THEM OVER.. Always remember, CUSTOMERS ALSO LIKE CHANGES SOMETIME.

By: PJ

PJ — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:09:15 +0000

Wise as always!