Episode 315: Removing Conflict from M&A

Episode 315 originally broadcast on June 18, 2011

The BusinessMakers visit with conflict resolution specialist Connie Barnaba to discuss her M&A practice. Paul Dickerson will tell us about his new show, The EnergyMakers. PKF’s Greg Price has ways to improve your hiring process, Leisa Holland-Nelson interviews Bank of Texas’ Val Gibbs, and Jonathan Fisher discusses emotional triggers.

School of Business 06/18/2011

Russ and John present the show that features the artists and athletes of the Free Enterprise system, the show about the entrepreneurs and the innovators. We got no textbooks! Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Week—pithy, political commentary from Winston Churchill; This Week in Business History includes innovation like Samuel Morse’s telegraph, barbed wire, and the first ferris wheel; the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak that YOU should know; and Dumb Moments in Business History—a Michigan bus company gets oversold.

Paul Dickerson - the EnergyMaker Show

Russ visits with a repeat BusinessMakers guest, Paul Dickerson, soon to be the host of the BusinessMakers’ new EnergyMaker Show. Dickerson is currently head of the Clean Energy Practice for law firm Haynes & Boone and formerly with the U.S. Department of Energy. Paul offers a bit of his unique perspective on the politics of energy in the U.S., and outlines this exciting new show, its objectives and the commercialization of new energy technologies.

Connie Barnaba - Barnaba & Assoc.

Russ interviews a repeat BusinessMakers guest, Connie Barnaba. The conflict-resolution specialist has expanded her “HR” services into mergers and acquisition consulting. Too many high powered experts were failing in their efforts to complete the acquisition and subsequent integration process; Connie believes these transactions need better conflict resolution and risk assessment, that integration of processes should be a bigger part of the pre-closing due diligence.