Mergers are MURDER
Almost 65% to 75% of Mergers & Acquisitions NEVER Succeed!
Companies and business rescue practitioners, regularly spend MILLIONS on mergers, acquisitions, turnarounds, or business rescue activities. But does it work? At what cost to the human element?
Often, prior to the need for a rescue, turnaround, or merger, leaders have wasted mega resources.
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ENSURANCE
Yet when it comes to ENSURING merger or turnaround success, and effective continuity, they skimp and cut corners on the human element of the process.
Then the leaders wonder why it didn’t work to its fullest potential.
And often, they’ve LOST more MILLIONS! Most leaders focus on the numbers, and forget about their humans – the most important aspect of the entire system.
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REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE
REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE System
Let me share what you can do to make sure you do succeed in optimising your human element, by applying the latest REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE High Performance optimisation philosophy, framework, and process, to get a smart balance between Head and Heart; numbers and humans.
This informs the optimal approach to Consciously-Constructive people development strategies that strengthen your People, Teams, Leadership, and Culture; POTENTIAL, PERFORMANCE, and PROFITS.
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Limitless Leadership
LIMITLESS LEADERSHIP MATTERS
Recent research proved that M&A’s seldom deliver as envisioned. Why? Because the REAL work begins AFTER the merger or acquisition has taken place, and it is focussed on the HEART of the system.
Org culture, leadership consciousness and EQ, have emerged as the primary barriers to effective M&A integrations. Culture has been found to be the cause of upwards of 30%-40% of failed integrations and lack of performance.
Unconscious leadership impact performance from 30% to 50%, or even more.
Your REAL Challenge
In today’s VUCA world, and the 4th Industrial Revolution context, most companies will be forced to face the need for strategic change, culture and leadership, transformation, to ensure survival.
PepsiCo performed an internal study revealing that managers with highly developed
EQ skills outperformed yearly revenue targets by 15-20%;
EQ is now a CRITICAL SKILL, that few leaders have enough of.
Real Impacts and Consequences
Usually, the negative effects of these M&A’s on individuals and teams are pervasive, punishing, and dire.
They negatively infect and affect, almost every person on all levels; trust, truth, commitment, collaboration, connection, certainty, loyalty, health, enthusiasm, energy, self-confidence, meaning, vision, purpose, and passion.
The usual leadership and turnaround input, focus is solely on the financial and commercial issues. All the HEAD STUFF. This is done, typically at the cost of the human element; The heart stuff.
Typically, when there is a takeover, merger or turnaround, the HR department’s role tends to be focused exclusively on the cost-savings issues and not people performance enablement opportunities.
What can we save in HR costs, and what is the price of implementation of any termination costs – seems to be the dominant concern? Greedership at it’s best!
Often, all human aspects are negatively impacted to the detriment of the whole system, because of this financial only focus and mindset. The reality is all M&A’s, turnarounds etc… affect every aspect of YOUR business; financially, AND your staff; mentally, energetically, and emotionally.
“90% of
top performing Leaders
score high on
emotional intelligence”
Learned Helplessness Impacts
Subtly and insidiously, learned-helplessness, low trust, no commitment, self-preservation, apathy, uncertainty, unfairness, and stress, become the norm.
This, very hard to manage human element, can be the kiss of death for any successful M&A or turn around, and often is.
Thus, few fly as envisioned. Resistance to change is natural and instinctive. That’s why almost 65% to 75% of Mergers and Acquisitions NEVER fully succeed!
Because the financial-only focus leaders (Greeders) seldom truly understand the vital importance of creating the right High-Performance Systems, and Consciously Constructive Mindset foundations, for moving forward successfully, in optimsing People, Teams, Leadership, and Culture, with a focus on People, Planet, AND Profits.
It’s also true that often most management and directors DON’T have a real, and thorough, understanding, of what’s happening at the “coal face”. They think, and even believe, they do.
But extensive REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE experience and feedback from staff, over many years, tells us otherwise. The reality is even smart heads, need a GOOD HEART to survive and thrive!
Research shows that executives, typically know around 5% to 15%, of what’s really happening at the coal-face. This gap in their perception is the critical area where they underestimate the importance of the human element needs. In some cases, there is ZERO care, compassion, or consciousness, beyond the numbers and the money.
Real Impacts and Consequences
The foundation of success, or failure, of turnarounds, rescues, and M&A’s, lies with the efforts and ability, to effectively create a culture, context, climate, and platform, to re-marshal, re-inspire, re-build trust, re energise, re-vision, and optimise, your people and team’s focus, identity, energy, resources, trust, meaning, commitment, & collaboration. It’s in the HEART STUFF! But few leaders can go there
A 40-year study of PhDs at UC Berkeley found that EQ was 400% more powerful than IQ when predicting who would have success in their field
In reality any turnaround of performance, is all about people… and what’s going on inside their heads, their hearts (Thought Viruses and mental fear-based programmes are the core constraints.), as well as relationships – work and personal.
Do you REALLY know what is happening in the heads and hearts of the people impacted, and exactly what to do to go about resolving it? Most head-based people avoid the soft stuff because the SOFT-STUFF IS THE HARD stuff.
“Neurons that
FIRE together,
WIRE together”
Leading Edge Tools & Emotional Intelligence Matter
Through the application of leading-edge tools, like:
-High-Performance Assessments to uncover the real inner state of the organisation,
-Adversity Intelligence (AQ) development to reverse learned helplessness,
– EQ//Emotional Intelligence – to enhance leadership effectivness and impacts
– AdaptAgility to improve Agility, AdaptAbility, Balance and Break Throughs
-Identity re-engineering, Personal Energy Management, and the
-REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE high-performance team-building ADAPTAGILITY processes, like THE “KILLER” COMPANY approach,
we can assure a shift in your people, and team’s mindsets, energy, attitudes, abilities, and performance.
This is your foundation for success. Ignore at your own peril.
Our pre assessments, enable us to have an x-ray machine look into how your system is performing, where the constraints and challenges are, and what needs to be done to resolve uncovered issues.
By adopting a Consciously-Constructive approach to the human element aspect in turnarounds and rescue’s, smart leaders can monitor, accelerate, and amplify, recovery results, more effectively. Plus, they can communicate better.
In neurobiology, we learn that “Neurons that FIRE together, WIRE together”.
Expecting an accountant, lawyer, or financial-only-focus leader, to be conscious, really “care”, or have compassion for the human-element, can sometimes, lead to disappointment and M&A mayhem. ;)
If you keep on doing what you have always done… You will keep on getting what you have always got!
Globally we are seeing more and more that the EQ/heart aspect is becoming even more relevant in creating sustainable, high performance, workplaces, enabling leaders to communicate with CARE.
Get to the HEART of the Matter
If we get to the HEART of the matters, we can begin to create potent, positive, passionate, High Performance People, Teams, Leadership and Organisational Cultures, with greater AdaptAgility and EQ.
EQ is empathy, motivation, self-awareness, self-regulation and social skills. I would add that emotional intelligence describes the ability to manage oneself and one’s emotions, decisions, and actions, in a manner that recognizes the effects on others.
It was Einstein who said that… “we have to move up to the next level of consciousness and awareness to begin to solve our problems that we created at the previous level of consciousness.”
With the release of our proven REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE High Performance System, this is the best time to shift People, Teams, Leadership, and Culture, to move up to the next level of possibility, potential and performance. To raise organizational consciousness and capacity to perform outstandingly.
This goes beyond narrow, financial-only focus. This is Consciousness building, ”Corporate Soul Surgery”.
Time to bring Soul back into your business?
This will be important to your leadership team, unless they are all just plain, unconscious, GREEDERS.
Research reveals that EQ is responsible for 58% of professional success, regardless of job category — Of all the workplace skills a person can possess, none is more impactful than EQ. It’s now a CRITICAL SKILL
Results Matter. People- Planet AND Profits
We have clients who have 2x’d to almost 4x’d their annual performance, with the application of the REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE High Performance Teams approach, that balances People, Planet. AND Profit.
You owe it to your people, investors, shareholders, and stakeholders, to explore the optimal approach to consciously collaborating to create brighter, better, bigger, futures for all.
After all conscious leaders know it’s all about People, Planet AND Profits.
So before you smash or crash your next merger, acquisition or business turn-around, lets chat and show you how our REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE, #AdaptAgility, and People Performance Enablement systems, can help you to begin to communicate better, connect stronger, lead consciously, and create a successful transition.
Tony Dovale
Developer of the REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE High Performance Teams systems
https://www.lifemasters.co.za
083-447-6300
Tony did an amazing presentation on wellbeing to our clients – wonderfull…the session was made a huge success through his expertise and efforts.
Tony is a first class Act!!
Having worked closely with Tony over 15 years, he is always a well prepared, high performance expert, who REALLY knows his stuff.”