29Bison Ideas, Insights & Inspiration
Welcome to the 29Bison blog, your go-to source for expert insights into human capital strategies, particularly within the private equity landscape. Here, we cover topics such as due diligence, value creation, succession planning, and critical role identification, helping investors and business leaders optimize their talent strategies. Each article explores how effective human resources practices—like comprehensive HR audits and proactive succession planning—drive business success by improving employee retention, aligning corporate culture, and ensuring seamless transitions in leadership.
Whether you're preparing for an acquisition, aiming to boost organizational performance, or seeking a competitive edge through human capital management, the 29Bison blog offers essential guidance to enhance and protect the value of your investments.
Why Executive Team Alignment Drives Value
Executive team alignment drives value because it decides whether a strategy turns into coordinated...
5 minute read
What Is a PEO? A Practical Guide for Growing Companies
A PEO, or Professional Employer Organization, is a third party that takes on payroll, tax filings,...
4 minute read
Ultimate Fractional HR Guide for 2026: Key Requirements
HR hiring in 2026 is less about checking credential boxes and more about proving you can reduce...
3 minute read
Critical Strategies for Managers Using AI to Prevent Burnout
Employee burnout rarely starts with a lack of perks. It starts with an operating model that asks...
4 minute read
HR Due Diligence for Acquisitions: A Buyer's Guide
HR due diligence for an acquisition is a review of the target's people, pay, benefits, labor...
6 minute read
Critical Payroll Compliance for Startups: A Practical Guide
Payroll is one of the fastest ways a promising startup can create avoidable risk. It touches taxes,...
4 minute read
How to Reduce Employee Turnover: Retention Strategies
To reduce employee turnover, find out where and why people are leaving, then fix the systems behind...
5 minute read
How to Improve Workplace Productivity Without Burning Out
Productivity problems rarely show up as a lack of effort. They show up as rework, slow decisions,...
4 minute read
Powerful Fractional HR Tips to Build Supervisors’ Labor Skills
Supervisors set the day-to-day tone of labor relations. They’re the first to hear a complaint, the...
3 minute read
Topics
- Benefits (2)
- Cultural Assessment (4)
- Culture (13)
- Culture Assessment (6)
- Due Diligence (19)
- Employee Engagement (3)
- ESG (3)
- Executive Assessment (7)
- Exit Planning (2)
- Fractional HR (25)
- Fractional HR Operating Partner (6)
- howthedealwasdone (2)
- HR Audit (13)
- HR Due Diligence (30)
- HR Integration (8)
- Human Capital Due Diligence (30)
- Human Resources Due Diligence (2)
- Leadership (18)
- Leadership Assessment (5)
- loveatwork (1)
- M&A (24)
- PEO (5)
- Podcast (7)
- Portfolio Company (15)
- Post-Transaction Integration (3)
- Private Equity (44)
- Representations and Warranties Insurance (1)
- Value Creation (28)