Managing During Mergers and Acquistions (Part 1 of 2)

Submitted by Michael on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 21:04.
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Whether you're at a small or big company, the competitiveness of the commercial world and the demands for growth make your firm either prey or predator. If a company can't grow organically - by growing sales of its own products - often leadership looks to be acquired or acquire another firm.

But what does that mean for a manager? What is our role in helping two organizations come together? How do you navigate the stressful, water-cooler-talk-filled, flurry-of-emails world of a merger or an acquisition? In this series of casts, we lay it out for you.


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Submitted by DinaHenryScott on Mon, 08/21/2006 - 22:50.

I was so excited to see the topic of

I was so excited to see the topic of this podcast! Our company is currently working on building our internal competencies in this area. Although, our goal is to learn more about acquiring and not planning on becoming an acquiree, I will be leading our first Integration Team and it is important to keep in mind what all the folks will be going through. I totally agree that communication, communication, communication (to the right people, about the right topic, said in the proper way at the proper time) is key to making a difficult process more effective. Looking forward to the next podcast!

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Submitted by rgenders on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 16:45.

Impacts on an Acquisition

 One impact resulting from an acquisition is the one of the cost of purchase being applied to the running costs of the organisation actually being acquired. I have been in an organisation that was taken over twice and to placate staff, Senior Management were very anxious to stress there would be no change. It defied logic to me at the time anyway as I consider myself a part of the 'change management business', but it was disappointing to realise this later and that it was intended to mislead staff. Great pod cast as always.