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The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions
The financial media is reporting a noted cautiousness by companies in terms of considering a merger. With debt concerns stretching far into and beyond 2010, coupled with a still volatile market, M&A activity is down 4.4% from last year- when we were in a recession.
80% of Mergers are a failure
The reasons for lack of merger [...]
Integral Life Practice – A New Whole Brain Approach to Life and Business
Having been exhorted by my colleagues for some considerable time to write a ‘blog’, I have consistently resisted with very heavy ‘feet of clay’. Until now! I’m on a plane returning from Perpignon, a small town in the South of France. I was there for a week during which time I have been introduced to [...]
Staff Engagement
The article below was featured in a Metro supplement on staff motivation. For the full article click here.
Here’s the good news. Your employees WANT to take pride in the organisation they represent. They WANT to care about the quality of their output and WANT to understand how their efforts help to deliver [...]
What Role Does Psychology Play in Business?
How can business psychology help you?
Sigmund Freud once said that “love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness”. Whilst you may not be feeling much love in the workplace at present, the application of psychological knowledge can help tremendously in these difficult times.
So how can business psychology support businesses and their employees? [...]
What is Assessment for?
Much is being written currently about leadership development, the management of human capital, facilitating and growing a company’s leadership pipeline and executive coaching.
At Thompson Dunn, we begin our approach to work of this nature by establishing a baseline, the point from which we start an intervention with a client. This is our assessment process and [...]
Authentic Leadership – “Know thyself”
The importance of authentic leadership
“Leaders need to be authentic to be truly effective”. You might have heard this from a leadership coach, read it in an HR initiative strategy report, or been told that it’s a “key competency” to be on the lookout for when you are recruiting. Perhaps you’ve nodded sagely at [...]
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The Leadership Pipeline
What do I spend most of my time doing? Supporting CEOs and strategic HR professionals to build a global leadership pipeline. How do I do this? Mostly by emphasising the importance of Talent Management and Leadership Development and then facilitating it at many levels organisationally.
Why should Talent Management be a CEO priority? [...]
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Do You Use Your Left or Right Brain?
Psychometric Testing
For those of you who have navigated the corporate world to senior management, you are likely to have, along the way, brushed up against, been subjected to or been gently pressganged into psychometric testing. The ubiquitous nature of measurement tools for both core ability and personality preference to think and behave, to my mind, [...]
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Mergers and Acquisitions
Emotional Responses in Mergers and Acquisitions
Much has been written recently in the financial press and various business school publications on what makes a merger or acquisition a success or failure. One of the most striking things however, seems to be the lack of attention paid to the emotional reactions of individuals, groups and indeed whole [...]
80% of Decisions are Made Intuitively