If 75 percent of all mergers fail, what makes the other 25 percent succeed?Mergers, acquisitions, and alliances are more vital today than ever before in driving business success. This indispensible guide offers proven strategies and sound solutions to the multitude of integration issues that inevitably arise, and shows how to create a combined business that meets its strategic and financial objectives, competes better, and offers personal and organizational enhancements. Dubbed "me...

In May 1998, a stunning $36 billion merger was announced by Chrysler, the all-American automaker, and Daimler-Benz, the German manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz luxury sedans. This corporate marriage promised to rock the global auto industry, but when the dust settled, Daimler had bought Chrysler, and an American icon had lost its independence. Taken for a Ride follows the twists and turns on the road to DaimlerChrysler and is a cautionary tale of the risks and rewards of going global....

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to develop your communication skills and use them to make more friends and persuade people. Have you been bothered on how to present yourself in front of other people? Or you just don’t know what to say and when to say it? Well, congratulations; you are not the only one! Almost everyone has a problem on managing their communication skills but with the help of this book, you will surely understand communication and learn how to effective...

In good markets or bad, reverse mergers play a key role for companies that want to avoid the IPO route for going public. Since the successful first edition of Reverse Mergers was published in 2006, the economic and regulatory landscape has changed. Executives, owners, lawyers, accountants, professional investors, regulators, and others need to know what those changes mean for reverse mergers.Reverse-merger expert David Feldman gives an overview of the most important change...

Wendy McKenzie is the founder and manager of McKenzie Training Associates. She’s worked both in the City and in a range of other companies and financial organisations.

In 2009, Victoria's CHEK-TV became the first employee-owned television station in North America after corporate owner CanWest Global threatened to shut it down. The David-and-Goliath story made national headlines and reawakened a belief in local, independent broadcasting. In the five years since the employee purchase of the station, CHEK has weathered the challenges of independent ownership and remains proudly local, in every sense of the word. While the future of media is unpredictable an...

QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource (4th edition) offers both practical and thought-provoking articles for the finance practitioner, written by leading experts from the markets and academia. The coverage is expansive and in-depth, with key themes which include balance sheets and cash flow, regulation, investment, governance, reputation management, and Islamic finance encompassed in over 250 best practice and thought leadership articles. This edition will also comprise key perspectives...

In 1999, MCI WorldComm and Sprint agreed to merge. Valued at $129 billion, this expected transaction was the largest in history. However, it fell victim to regulators in Europe concerned with the potential monopoly power of the merged firm. This M&A action was merely the latest in a growing trend of "blockbuster" mergers over the past several years. Once a phenomenon seen primarily in the United States, mergers and acquisitions are increasingly being pursued across national boundaries. In ...

Fast paced, enjoyable to read and even more fun to look at, Your Exit Map*: Navigating the Boomer Bust* is a new kind of business book for the 21st century. Modern technology and the Internet combine to surpass the drab, text filled “drone tomes” that fill too many business owners’ shelves.Over 200 illustrations, photos, graphs and cartoons take the reader through the historical shifts that created a generation of Boomer entrepreneurs, and the equally powerful forces that ...

Having spent four years brokering the sale of internet businesses at FE International, working with thousands of website buyers and helping advise new entrants to the industry, we’ve built up quite a lot of knowledge on the art of buying internet businesses and now we’ve got round to publishing a guide on it.The Guide to Buying an Internet Business is aimed at first-time and experienced website buyers alike, those who are just learning about the idea of buying an internet business ...

How do you make change work?What skills and resources do you need?From understanding and planning, to implementing and assessing the impact, this book covers all aspects of managing change using simple, practical steps and strategies, each one of which has been developed, tested and proven to work.Managing your Team through Change will expertly guide you step by step through the entire change process so you can deliver the required outcomes whilst keeping y...

Trade unions in Europe are currently facing a series of challenges that stem from changes to regulatory and production regimes implemented by the state and employers, in order to compete in an increasingly internationalized economy. In response to these challenges, trade union movements have been dramatically restructuring; long-standing principles of organization have been jettisoned in an attempt to develop new structures. Central to this process of structural adaptation are the mergers ...