Issues & Answers

What you may be expecting from your merger:

-  synergy
-  access to new markets
-  intellectual properties
-  new talent
-  increased profit.

• People Stuff" (human factors)
  
• Feeling of powerlessness, loss of control, de-personalization, insecurities, abandonment
  
• Alienation of loyal people, believing in their organization and culture,  fearing change, fearing that they will not be able to make a difference.
  

Individuals of two merging organizations working together to define and create and own a new culture, management style, structure, and set of policies that will contain the synthesis of the best of both.

• All personnel contribute to pooling information, analysis, envisioning, solving.
  
• Large team (40-80-or more) works with that input and their own experience to finalize, with architect(s) of merger and fiscal stewardship, legal, and other talent, the people issues of the new organization.
  
• This is accomplished expeditiously and to everyone's benefit.