Mastering the Language of Integration

Abstract

Senior managers need to define a value-added leadership role for themselves based on a creative and expansive understanding of how the merger affects the corporation. As their integration teams become more proficient and their integration tools and techniques more deeply institutionalized, senior managers’ charge is to resist the emergence of complacency. They must strive for a truly healthy merger. The preceding five chapters on the leadership challenges have provided a view of what this leadership entails — a view grounded in actual leadership experience from many integrations in a diverse set of companies.