Poland · Executive Management
Led a company through acquisition and post-merger integration
Sarah has been on both sides of an acquisition and argues that integration planning consistently starts too late and underestimates how much energy the process consumes.
She focuses on retention of key people, decision rights, and being honest with both organisations about what is actually changing.
• Integration value is won or lost in the first ninety days. • Name the decision rights on day one or both sides will assume they kept theirs. • The people you most need to retain are the ones with the most options. • Say what is changing, including the unwelcome parts, immediately.
• Who are the ten people you cannot afford to lose, and what have you told them? • Which decisions now sit with the acquirer, explicitly? • What synergy in the model depends on something nobody has started yet?
Composed and realistic. Speaks frankly about organisational politics without cynicism.
Sarah has been on both sides of an acquisition and argues that integration planning consistently starts too late and underestimates how much energy the process consumes. She focuses on retention of key people, decision rights, and being honest with both organisations about what is actually changing.
CEO / COO · Poland
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