Does your growth strategy include acquisitions? Beware!

Merger and acquisition activity is expected to be up sharply in 2014. I find a couple of things interesting about that: 1) Anywhere from 50-90% of transactions fail to meet their stated goals, yet there is this exuberance to spend more money, when even the best odds are like a coin toss. 2) I wonder if this is being driven by companies that are having difficulty achieving their current...

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