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A Time To Consider Strategic Alliances
In any economy, strategic alliances can make good economic sense. Strategic alliances can strengthen the depth and/or breadth of an organization’s capabilities, giving it competitive advantage, while often reducing overhead and improving the bottom line. In a challenging economy, such alliances can be a crucial survival strategy. However, a poorly conceived, poorly planned or poorly executed alliance can be a disaster for all involved. This article covers what issues to consider and how to proceed with exploring and executing a strategic alliance.
Should I Consider or Accept a Merger Offer ?
The articles provide insights into the benefits of a merger or joint venture for business owners and financial managers seeking to understand that strategy .
Business Partnerships: Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst
In this changing economy, small businesses will grow and thrive through partnerships, affiliations and collaborations. Partnerships take many forms. Whether joining together to form a new business, merging or consolidating existing businesses, bringing new partners into an existing business entity or developing working collaborations between separate business entities, choosing the right partner(s) and developing a comprehensive written agreement, are critical to assure success and minimizes the damage, should any of a number of worst-case scenarios occur.
The "Stuff" Is the Fluff, The Flower Is the Power
I see there's a lotta talk about Posts with flowers pics! Fact is, The Great Peony Post was just an innocent (I thought) riff about missing home, pretty flowers, and Mid-summer's. But if you wanna fight ...
First Tip to Getting a Life...Balanced
How to Get a Life...Balanced Using 52 Strategies. This is the first strategies in the series that has turned into a manual, and ebook and the number one keynote Sheryl does. It's critical when you are asked to do more and more in less and less time. Americans find it hard to "stop the madness" between soccer practice, ballet, computer classes, and working often two jobs. These strategies work and were developed after presenting this program world wide over a period of years and collecting ideas that are real life tips that can change lives. Enjoy!
Work Is A Four-Letter Word
Consider turning your "job" into "work" and improve your career, your outlook and your life!

Surprising Ways PR Can Build Your Business
When launching a PR campaign, once you get the story out there, you never know who is going to see, hear or read it.

Finding the Right Job - Top Ten Myths
Need a new job, one that's right for you? Explore ten myths that may keep you from applying for a position that may be your perfect fit.

Effective Writing: Where Have You Gone?
There are several poorly written articles circling the bowl on a daily basis, and this may end up being yet another one, but it's alarming to me that professional journalists consistently botch spelling and grammar. It used to be newspapers, magazines, and books served as an example of the proper use of punctuation, word groupings, grammar, and synonyms. Not anymore.

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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.
MERGERS WAYS TO REBUFF THE UNWANTED SUITORS
Mergers can be good given the right circumstances. But management needs to have programs in place to keep the wrong people away and attract the right ones.
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.
Meger Mania
Are you caught up in the aftermath of merger mania? The fallout of corporate mergers can be disastrous for the executive talent pool. Maybe exploring business ownership should be an option as you are considering a new career path!
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.
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