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Operations Due Diligence: An M&A Guide for Investors and Business
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Operations Due Diligence: An M&A Guide for Investors and Business

by James F. Grebey
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 52m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER 8

Assessment of the Organizational Infrastructure

In 1876 Army Major Henry Robert was asked to lead a public meeting at his local church. Conducting public meetings was not an activity the major was accustomed to, and he approached the task with some trepidation. He was no doubt used to military order and discipline, and he wasn’t prepared for the chaos that went with public meetings. People spoke when they felt like it, and they listened when they felt like it. The major felt that holding open public meetings was a highly inefficient way to accomplish anything. He struggled through his meeting, but he told people later that he had fully lost control and, in the end, hadn’t accomplished any of his goals.

As his military career advanced, ...

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ISBN: 9780071777612