An executive I work with once told me: “We're pretty good at deciding which companies to acquire and we know how to pay the right price… but we're not good at integrating. We want them to adopt [...]

As someone who loves my profession, I genuinely look forward to each workday. In fact, there have been many times when it took me by surprise that others don’t feel this way.

Over the past weekend, someone said to me (quoting Upton Sinclair) that it's difficult to get people to understand something when their income depends on their not understanding it.