Company leadership is universally understood to be a critical part of a deal’s success or failure. After all, along with looking at synergies, financials, product and service outlooks and so on, assessments of potential strategic acquisitions also include an assessment of the target’s leadership team.
But how much does leadership matter? In one WTW survey on human capital issues in mergers & acquisitions , acquirers rated “influencing the effectiveness of senior leadership” as the biggest difference between very successful and less successful deals.
