Leadership Risk
A Guide for Private Equity and Strategic Investors
Published on 15. March 2010
250 pages
978-0-470-66193-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a practical guide for private equity investors. Itsets out a framework for understanding, assessing and managing therisks associated with senior management during the due diligenceprocess of an acquisition. This provides an essential input intothe wider due diligence review and a sound basis for managing theinvestment after the deal has been done so as to maximise thechances of a successful exit.
The book comes at a time of significant growth in the field ofprivate equity. In the UK over 3 million people (around 18% of allprivate sector employees) now work for private equity backedcompanies. It is estimated that European funds currently havesomewhere between #200 and #300 billion to invest over the next fewyears. In the US, the whole issue of private equity due diligenceis much more advanced but it is still likely that due diligencewill remain a significant issue for private equity investors forthe foreseeable future.
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David Cooper is a specialist in the assessment anddevelopment of senior executives and supports investors in managingleadership risk. For the first eleven years of his career he workedin the risk advisory group at Arthur Andersen. He then completed aMasters degree in Organisational Psychology at the London School ofEconomics, where he began to develop the concept of 'leadershiprisk'. He went on to become one of the few Chartered Accountants toqualify as a Chartered Psychologist and founded Cooper Limon, aprofessional advisory business specialising in management duediligence and portfolio review for Private Equity and Strategicinvestors. Through Cooper Limon and in his role as head ofexecutive assessment at Praesta Partners, an international coachingfirm, he has assessed and coached several hundred senior executivesand advised some of the world's leading Private Equity funds.He continues his research into leadership risk and has spokeninternationally at both Accounting and Psychologyconferences.
David can be contacted at david.cooper@cooperlimon.com
Content
Introduction.
1 The Landscape of Leadership Risk.
2 Overview of the leadership risk MAPPING framework.
3 Planning and Preparation.
4 Deciding what to Assess at an Individual Level.
5 Conducting Assessments at an Individual Level.
6 What to Assess at Team Level.
7 Assessing at a Team Level.
8 What to Assess at an Organisational Level.
9 Conducting Assessment at an Organisational Level.
10 The Review Phase.
11 The Address Phase.
12 Third Party Service Providers and Their Approaches.
