After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success, Revised Edition (Hardcover)

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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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 158 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2nd edition (September 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786312394
• ISBN-13: 978-0786312399
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.9 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.com Sales Rank: #291,843 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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118 of 122 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "The Authoritative Guide"? Give me a break!, December 29, 1999

By	Tim Feagan (Spokane, WA) - See all my reviews

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Starting Place, November 13, 2000

By	Geoff Wieczynski (Lafayette, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick way to plan a merger, February 15, 2008

By	Hani Ascha "Hani" (California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.