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After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success, Revised Edition [Hardcover]

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0786312394 978-0786312399 September 3, 2007 2nd
Are you a CEO, company president, or front-line financial manager recently involved in a merger or acquisition? After the Merger, long hailed as the indispensable reference source for anyone entering the M&A marketplace, is your bible for keeping costly post-merger surprises to a minimum. This classic text, first published in the heady days of 1985 and now revised to reflect new realities in today's rapidly-changing business world, is packed with fascinating case histories and examples involving TWA, Wells Fargo, and others. After the Merger shows you how to roll up your sleeves and combine two separate, highly distinct companies into one solid organization. Look here for details on ways to defuse the cultural time bombs that threaten to destroy international mergers; the 6 errors that managers make again and again, and how you can avoid them; best practices for handling the 4 major categories of merger, everything from "rescue" to "raid"; and time-saving checklists for executives on both sides of the acquisition. Whether you are in the middle of a merger or acquisition or just considering the possibility — no matter what your side — you need the completely updated and revised After the Merger to guarantee long-lasting, post-merger success.

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Related books by this author include: Smart Moves; Mergers: Growth in the Fast Lane; The Employee Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions; High-Velocity Culture Change; Culture Shift; Shaping Corporate Culture; Resistance; A Survival Guide to the Stress of Organizational Change.

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``This book helped us realize that the merger process doesn't have to be a mystery. The answer is to break it down into manageable steps, and get going. Prichett & Associates helped us deal with reality and make sense out of complexity.''--James A. Bixby--President, Brooktree Division, Rockwell Semiconductor Systems. ``Speaking from experience, everything this book says will happen. . .does happen. The teachings on how to lead and manage and event as emotional and destabilizing as an acquisition work if you use them and stick to them. Using Pritchett's lessons was critical to our success.''--Fred Tomczyk--President and CEO, London Life Insurance Company. ``After the Merger provides helpful insights into the most important area of corporate acquisitions--what do you do with the company after the deal closes? Few writers or dealmakers pay enough attention to this vital subject.''--Jim Mahoney--Publisher, National Review of Corporate Acquisitions. After the Merger, with hundreds of tips and tactics from front-line M&A professionals, is your map through the obstacles and landmines that stand in the way when two companies are merging their operations. This classic business book, revised and updated to reflect today's increasingly high-stakes environment, uses well-known case histories to demonstrate strategies which have ensured sucess. . .or failure. It reveals for you: 6 RED FLAGS that signal potentially fatal emotional eruptions, and how you can keep every player focused on creating a strong company; 3 MAJOR REASONS why managers leave, and what you can do to keep these valuable members on your team; PROVEN STRATEGIES to take advantage of the instability created by a merger or acquisition.

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  • Hardcover: 158 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2nd edition (September 3, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0786312394
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786312399
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Price Pritchett, Ph.D., is Chairman and CEO of PRITCHETT, LP, a company known worldwide for its expertise in organizational change, merger integration, corporate culture, and process redesign. For more than 30 years, he has helped executives and their workforces understand and rise to the challenge of accelerating change. With more than 20 million copies of his books in print, he is one of the bestselling authors in the world. Dr. Pritchett's clients include Pfizer, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, ABC Radio, Wachovia, McDonald's, John Deere, Michelin, ABN-AMRO, Lockheed-Martin, Novartis, and Delta Airlines. He is also the author of McGraw-Hill's Hard Optimism.

 

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1.0 out of 5 stars "The Authoritative Guide"? Give me a break!, December 29, 1999
This review is from: After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success, Revised Edition (Hardcover)
This book should have been an short magazine article. The authors basically dissect one concept over and over and over: change is disruptive. There is very little useful information in this book. It points out all of the obvious and frequently-stated problems that come with change - productivity suffers, commitment is lost, etc., etc., etc., but gives no insight in how to fix the problems (unless you count these golden nuggets- "Keep your eye on the ball" and "Provide direction"). The one chapter that I hoped would shed some light on tactics - "Integration Project Management" - was pure fluff. It offered such pearls of wisdom as "It is helpful to look at the integration process as a logical sequence of steps designed to help bring the two organizations together." Not only is this a "Duh" statement, but it shows up in chapter 8! I would expect to read something like that in the introduction. And chapters 5 and 6 state that you should evaluate key talent in the aquired firm - but no where in these chapters does it tell you how to do it! I guess you have call up Pritchett & Associates (and fork over big $$) for the details. My only guess is that the authors kept the book generic on purpose so that companies would call and ask about their consulting services. My advice: save your money for a real book, and just call up Pritchett & Associates for their marketing literature.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Starting Place, November 13, 2000
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This review is from: After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success, Revised Edition (Hardcover)
As a project manager who picked up integrating a merger as one of his projects, I found this book to be very helpful. Mergers bring out confusion, tension and stress to all sides. This book focused on how to bridge these gaps through effective communication and project management.

Particularly, I found chapter 10 (General Guidelines for Merger/Acquisition Management) insightful and I used the checklists in this chapter in portions of our integration effort. What I felt this book missed were templates designed to immediately pick up and use in my everyday life.

I found the book is a quick read-I read it on one airplane trip. Many of the comments are very simple and fall into the category of common sense. However, in much of this common sense many of the problems of integrating two companies exist.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quick way to plan a merger, February 15, 2008
This review is from: After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success, Revised Edition (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book for those who are not M & A experts. It is structured well for ease of understanding and have clear advice that can help you create you own M & A to do list.
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