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225: Mark Sirower, How to thrive and win in M&A

The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

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Reactors Are Playing This Game of Not to Lose

If you do the wrong deal, it doesn't matter how you close it, it's not going to create the value you intended for it to create. You know, whenyo, when you react to a deal, think of it like this. Reactors are playing this constant game of not to lose,. They a deal comes across the table, they put togethera they got two weeks, te three weeks, to look at something, and then it's a go or no go decision. But in the process of doing that, they've increased the odds of faults so they're tring to avoid false positives but what they've done is they've jacked up the risk of false negative

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