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How to instill purpose after an acquisition or new CEO

by: Brian WrightPublished on: 09/10/2026

After a deal, people's sense of purpose tends to slip, at the moment the plan asks the most of them. And it can be shored up.

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Layoffs are hard enough. Don't let state filings carry the message.

by: Brian WrightPublished on: 01/10/2026

What a CEO can do is plan for affected people to hear it from leadership first, including the reason and what comes next.

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Communicating Strategy to Employees: The Private Equity CEO's Blind Spot

by: Brian WrightPublished on: 15/06/2026

Your value-creation plan stalls when strategy doesn't translate through every layer. Here's why transmission is execution work, and who has to own it.

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