Empowerment

In post-merger integration, “culture clash” is often blamed when things start to unravel. It is a convenient explanation, but rarely the root cause. Culture is an abstraction. Behaviors are tangible. And it is behaviors that quietly derail integration efforts long before culture ever has a chance to. For CEOs navigating the integration of a smaller acquired company, the real risk is not that the two organizations think differently. It is that specific, unmanaged behaviors beg