"When senior leaders are tasked with growing a business"

Mais um trecho interessante retirado de "Elevate", de Rich Horwath:

"As the results show, your ability to craft, communicate, and execute sound strategy will determine the firm's financial results. It's one thing to ask a manager to reduce costs by 15 percent. She will readily come tip with a laundry list of ways to reduce costs. It's an entirely different thing to ask a manager to profitably grow the business 15 percent. She will most likely be stumped or trot out the same old line-up of tired tactics. When senior leaders are tasked with growing a business, many quickly turn to the acquisition of other companies. Mergers and acquisitions capture many of the headlines in business publications, but do they capture profitable growth? While some companies have become experts at identifying M&A candidates and then successfully blending the new business into the existing one, it's not necessarily the norm. Multiple studies over the past 20 years have shown that the majority of acquisitions actually destroy their own shareholder's value."

Por isto é que torci logo o nariz ao título sobre o novo plano estratégico da PT.
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Por isto é que o Paulo Peres estava preocupado com este resultado para as empresas brasileiras em "A fome de aquisições do empresário brasileiro"