The Six Sins of Mergers and Acquisitions
jackwelch.strayer.edu/blog/the-six-deadly-sins-of-ma-listen-up-linkedin-and-microsoft
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Look, there’s no rulebook for M&A. Fifty years into intense worldwide M&A activity, with thousands of examples to learn from, companies still botch it, too often not realizing the anticipated benefits of a deal. On top of that, many people who live through the “A” part of the process will tell you the whole thing felt a little like a death to them, with their lives turned upside down. Still, no company should shy away from M&A, just from its six most common pitfalls.