Board governance mythology is built for public companies, but private boards, and the investor-directors who sit on them, operate by very different rules.

PE-backed boards must push management hard enough to hit 3-5 year return targets, without setting expectations so high the team is set up to fail.

M&A pulls resources from across the organization under intense time pressure. Here's how to structure a deal team that can actually execute.

Selling a business you built is a defining, once-in-a-lifetime event. Founders who don't prepare properly often leave real value on the table.

Lawyers and bankers aren't just gap-fillers, they're a force multiplier when a deal team knows how to deploy them well.

Divestitures are as much a part of the M&A lifecycle as acquisitions, worth over $2.1 trillion globally in 2021 alone. Most large companies now review their portfolios on an ongoing basis.

From first outreach to a signed LOI, the early steps of a deal set the tone for everything that follows, a field guide to sourcing and closing that stretch.

Today's tech giants were once VC-backed startups themselves. Many now run their own corporate venture arms to stay close to what's next.

Your brain makes constant shortcuts to cope with incomplete information, useful most of the time, but worth understanding before it quietly steers a decision astray.

Every era has its self-improvement trend. A clearer-eyed look at what mindfulness practice actually does, and doesn't do, for business innovation.

Markets are assumed to be efficient, but companies are made of people, not spreadsheets. Where the human element breaks the efficiency story.

Comfortable executives tolerate evolutionary change but resist the disruptive kind. The innovator's real dilemma is choosing between isolation and conflict to get heard.

Every major investment case relies on a multi-year financial projection. The one thing they all have in common: they're wrong, here's how to use them anyway.

Pair a growth-hungry CEO with a corporate development leader, and M&A can look like a deceptively easy shortcut to scale. A look at the incentives that make hot markets dangerous.

Predicting the future from historical data has real limits. Sometimes the earliest signal of what's next looks nothing like a trend at all.

Great analysis of M&A trends by the Deloitte team. Couple of observations I would make (personally - not representing Deloitte or the M&A Services team).

Hybrid isn't just for cars. As industries blur, expect a lot more hybridization in business, and in the people who run it.

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