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What's Culture Got To Do with It?
A beautifully crafted strategy can fail when the employees in various divisions within an organization clash. Logically, we think that strategy should drive behavior, but, in reality, it's the culture—underlying norms, values, belief systems—that dictates how effectively people work together. Employees' behavior has direct impact on the bottom line, costs, revenue streams, level of productivity, customer satisfaction, even the brand—every aspect of the business is affected. If strategy and culture are not aligned, the culture may support behaviors that conflict with what has to get done—and actually block execution of the strategy.
The Best of Times...The Worst of Times?
Today is March 12, 2009. I am identifying this day so you can get a perspective of where we are in the world. I don’t know about you but I am getting a little tired of what the media is exposing us to. Every statement seems to start with “during these tough times”, even commercials are getting on board with the negative jargon. Every statistic is peppered with “the worst since”, “highest since”, or “lowest since”. I question the mechanism for such quotes and who really cares? Even the weather has become “severe” weather with it’s corresponding lowest or highest recorded stats. I may regret saying this but I’m ready to hear more about Iraq, that has been pushed to the back page.

The New Dance
Poor Pluto. Stripped of its planetary status by the International Astronomical Union and reclassified as a "dwarf planet," two years ago, Pluto's demotion heralds new rules for planet classification. Debate by renowned astronomers from seventy-five countries culminated in the decision to reduce the number of planets to eight "classic" ones.

Staying in the Game
The message came from Human Resources. There's nothing to worry about with the newly announced organizational changes and pending merger, it reassured. The changes will be good for the company and good for the people who work here it coached.

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Go and Get it
Business is out there. It’s up to you to go get it. Mergers and acquisitions are on the rise. Many CEOs have been putting their cash away for the past few years and are ready to take advantage of the steady economy and grow by acquiring. Hiring is up and although some layoffs have occurred from large mergers, there is available talent ready and able to fill the help wanted.
Grow your business through creating predictability
The need to implement predictability in a business occurs for several reasons: mergers or acquisitions, inefficiencies, cost control, lack of process effectiveness, competition and global pressures, just to name a few.

Impact of Culture on Mergers and Acquisitions
no matter how adept top executives have been in working the art of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), many are now singing the post M&A blues. According to a KPMG International study, 83% of mergers and acquisitions fail due to mismanagement of cultures. Merging balance sheets it turns out is far easier than merging cultures. Executives must therefore analyze the culture of the two companies before considering a merger or acquisition.
Taking control of your IT&T career - June 2004
Implementing a successful career management strategy in the IT&T industry has been anything but easy in the last few years. Changing market conditions, mergers, acquisitions, redundancies, retrenchments, and pay reductions have become the common mantra.
Surviving the Reduction in Force
A change in career status is a major life transition and it naturally brings with it many conflicting emotions. When an individual faces a period of unemployment, whether it is due to reorganization, downsizing in a tough economic environment, mergers and acquisitions, a performance issue or even a retirement, he or she is likely to experience many strong feelings.
Strategic is "Pounding on the Basics"
The Strategic Action category is replete with mergers, acquisitions, new products, new markets and partnerships and alliances, but taking care of the Basics 24X7X365 always seems to get left out....

Merger Miseries 5 Mini Mergers
Every day we read and hear about the mergers or acquisitions going on between the behemoth companies. They show up on the international radar due to their size and impact. Less visible, but equally impactful in the aggregate, are the hundreds of thousands of small restructurings that go on within organizations every day. This article discusses the smaller mergers and their impact.

Merger Miseries 7 What a Rip Off
This article addresses the timing issue of mergers and acquisitions. Many mergers are handled at a pace that would make glaciers melt. A better plan is to figure out what needs to be done and get it over with rather quickly. This article describes why that works better.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Understanding the Essentials of Strategy and Execution in the M&A Ecosystem - Part 2 of 4
In part one of this four article series, we explored the landscape of the Merger & Acquisition (M&A) ecosystem and how M&A activity is generally driven by strategic objectives that must form a match between both parties - the buyer and the seller. As discussed in Part 1 of this series, mergers and acquisitions, in some cases, may be required by one or both organizations in order to survive. In other cases, the M&A move be seen as a strategic action that will lead to a leaner, more profitable company once the transaction is completed - one that is better positioned for growth. Given the need to acquire or merge will always be present in the business world, how can it be done successfully? In this installment, we delve further into the points of commonality between mergers and acquisitions, examining the buy and sell-side perspectives.
The M&A Market Is Hot, But The Results Are Not - How Strategic Planning Can Help
2010 saw the first worldwide annual gain in merger and acquisition deal-making since the financial crisis, according to the New York Times’ DealBook, and 2011 was called the “year of M&A” by Forbes. With all the attention on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of late, there’s a good chance your organization has been faced with the prospects of attempting or at least considering one for itself. If so, read on.
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