Managing Your First Acquisition Team

The skills that make a great acquisitions professional are almost the opposite of the ones that make a great manager of them. The promotion is a career change disguised as a title bump.

Delegate the Model, Keep the Judgment

Your job shifts from building the model to building the people who build it — and to holding the judgment calls that cannot be delegated. Resisting the urge to do it all yourself is the whole challenge.

Hire for curiosity and ownership over raw pedigree, then give them real deals with real stakes. That is how judgment transfers.