Divisional leadership should actively seek to preserve the entrepreneurial spirit of subsidiaries, and the subsidiaries should support efforts to do the same. The ability to act quickly, sans excessive operational constraints, is vital to maintaining momentum.
What can leaders of fast-growing companies do to maintain or accelerate momentum at their own firms? Here are six lessons from my experience. Underestimating culture can be perilous, DealRoom says, citing a litany of failures due to cultural incompatibility. In Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, for example, we can blame culture clash. For example, DealRoom-a unit of M&A Science that’s worked on hundreds of acquisitions-recently reported on lessons learned from deals, both good and bad.
