Capitalize on merger chaos - Thomas Grubb & Robert Lamb

According to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, merger mania persists because companies believe that 'only the truly massive will survive in worldwide competition.' Yet a full 80% of mergers fail because of culture clashes and the chaos that ensues. Taking that failure rate into account, Thomas Grubb and Robert Lamb argue that companies waste valuable growth oportunities when they stand by passively while their competitors are involved in mergers or acquisitions. Here they present managers with a fast-paced primer for action when rivals merge.
Grubb and Lamb analyse winning straegies at AT&T, GENERAL ELECTRIC, MERCK, DELL, DAIMLER-CHRYSLER, JOHNSON & JOHNSON, MICROSOFT, and PEPSICO, in addition to failures at UNION PACIFIC, BOEING, and SUNBEAM. The result is a book that belongs on every manager's shelf in the 21st century.