The Story of an Integration Flashpoint of the Worst Sort
by Mark Herndon, President, M&A Partners
Those words in a big, bold font literally jumped out at me from the bright yellow lapel buttons in the town hall meeting. There were dozens of them, and probably dozens more posted in cubicles throughout the building. That phrase, “are you my boss?” was now, officially, a flashpoint of the worst sort.
This is a true story from one of the toughest integrations I’ve been associated with. Not that we hadn’t tried. We’d been pushing the boulder uphill for weeks. But the leadership team just couldn’t seem to get their heads around the extreme importance of making the big, tough decisions on organization design, selection of key leadership roles and overall NewCo staffing in a timely, objective and strategic way. Now the chickens had come home to roost!
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