Joining Forces Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances

by Marks, Mitchell Lee; Mirvis, Philip H.

• ISBN13: 9780470537374
• ISBN10: 047053737X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-23
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Once business markets stabilize there will be a huge wave of mergers and acquisitions, and executives, managers, and employees will have to be prepared. Nationally recognized M&A experts Marks and Mirvis have completely revised their groundbreaking book, Joining Forces, to provide a successful M&A framework designed to help organizations, managers, and employees navigate a merger or acquisition in today's rapidly changing, global business climate. This new edition covers all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, addressing the new strategic, human, organizational, and cultural challenges and showing how to develop an ongoing "merger mindset" within the organization.

Author Biography

Mitchell Lee Marks is an internationally recognized expert on corporate transitions (including mergers, acquisitions, alliances, downsizings, and restructurings), corporate culture, leadership development, and executive teambuilding. He is a member of the faculty of the College of Business at San Francisco State University and leads JoiningForces.org, a change management consulting firm.

Philip H. Mirvis is an organizational psychologist whose research and practice concerns large-scale organizational change, global corporate responsibility, and the changing character of the workforce and workplace. He has been an advisor to companies on five continents and has authored ten books and over 100 scholarly and practitioner articles.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
The Authors	p. xv
Creating Value in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances	p. 1
The Elusive Equation	p. 3
What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right	p. 29
The Precombination Phase	p. 53
Strategic and Operational Preparation	p. 57
Psychological Preparation	p. 83
Precombination Checklist	p. 104
The Combination Phase	p. 107
Leading the Combination	p. 109
Putting Companies Together: The Transition Structure	p. 137
Managing People Through the Transition	p. 164
Easing the Clash of Cultures	p. 189
Combination Checklist	p. 215
The Postcombination Phase	p. 219
Building the New Organization and Culture	p. 223
Joining People and Teams Together	p. 242
Damage Control and Recovery	p. 265
Postcombination Checklist	p. 281
Building M&A Competence	p. 285
Tracking and Learning from the Combination	p. 287
Joining Forces-Building M&A Competency	p. 312
Endnotes	p. 329
Index	p. 341
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