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Paranoia: Running Scared in M&A Can Be a Best Practice

M&A Leadership Council

Andy Grove said it best, “Success breeds complacency. In 1987, as the SVP/CFO of a Mid-west retailer, we took on our first acquisition – a company of similar size. Then I leveraged their learnings in how we approached our integration efforts. So we issued the “new” customers our store credit card before the conversion.

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