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

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 aminimum. 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.

``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.