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70% of M&A Deals Fail To Meet Expectations
How M&A Deals Are Like Marriages and What To Do About Failed Expectations According to multiple studies 70% of M&A deals fail to meet expectations. Other statistics show that the divorce rate in marriages in the United States approaches 50%. But despite...
The Cost of Winter Storms: Should We Believe the Economists?
We hear it every winter, especially this year in the Pacific Northwest, winter storms cost the US economy billions of dollars. This year, the extended winter freeze that has pounded entire regions of the US is projected to chill the overall economy. AccuWeather...
Why Small Business CEO Successions Often Fail
We often receive calls from companies that are in various stages of business decline and are asked to help them deal with their issues. Our approach is to understand why the company is in decline and to identify the events or issues that contributed to their...
And the Shutdown Continues
Two weeks ago, we wrote about the effects of the shutdown on small and medium businesses. Today we're writing about the effects on all of us as people. Over the years of writing blogs, we have shied away from writing about politics. There are, in our political...
How the Government Shutdown Affects Business
We all know that currently, at least part of the United States government is closed. But in addition to about 500,000 workers out of work, an additional 300,000 are working, illegally, without pay. During the last government shutdown, a Federal Court authorized...
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