What potty training taught me about leadership
This morning, my toddler brought me several handfuls of poop from his diaper.
He handed them to me while I was actively saying “Let’s take off your diaper and clean up your poop.”
That’s what it feels like when you roll-up an acquired company into an organization — I’m trying to integrate a whole new group of vendors, tech, and EMR data, meanwhile the team keeps bringing me handfuls of turds one at a time.
Rolling in a new company takes time, but we don’t have any time to waste.
In my experience, the first 30 days post-acquisition surfaces at least 3 major disconnects, and we usually don’t know what is working well for 90 days.
The best way to move forward quickly with an acquisition is to know what the problems are before you start, and that’s where I come in:
- Get new clinics to baseline performance 60 days faster
- Eliminate redundant vendor spend across locations
- Create one unified dashboard for marketing performance across all sites
- Build repeatable onboarding processes for every acquisition
If you don’t know what you need to know to get in front of the problem, you’re going to end up chasing a toddler with no diaper and a handful of poop. Are you ready?