by Steve Gibson | 7 Aug 2026 | Behind plan
The wrong question The decision as it arrived The client was the private equity partner on the company’s board. Her firm had owned the business two years, and everyone around her had settled on the same answer. Replace the CEO. The company places contract nurses and...
by Steve Gibson | 7 Aug 2026 | Acquisition
What the model could not price The decision as it arrived The deal belonged to the CEO. He had found it and argued it past a committee that had turned down his last two. His company makes precision components for equipment builders. A private equity firm owns it, and...
