The Global M&A Tango: How to Reconcile Cultural Differences in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Partnerships

A leadership blueprint for managing cross-cultural issues in any M&A deal

In our rapidly expanding and increasingly volatile global economy, mergers and acquisitions are becoming the strategy of choice for businesses seeking to stimulate growth while managing risk. As more and more M&A deals are struck between global organizations, difficult new issues involving cultural differences have arisen.

In The Global M&A Tango, international managementexperts Fons Trompenaars and Maarten Nijhoff Asser explain how to detect and manage these issues before they become major problems.

Drawing on the world-renowned Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Cross-Cultural Database and Culture Compass, the authors illustrate how widely cultures can differ and, by reconciling the dilemmas created by that difference, howthey can be integrated quickly, efficiently, and effectively.

The Global M&A Tango helps you meet all thechallenges of cross-national M&A by:

• Creating common mission, vision, strategy, and values
• Developing trust across value boundaries
• Enabling people with different cultural perspectives to engage in valuable discussions

Change-management programs all too often ignore the culture perspectives of the individuals and groups involved--and it's often why organizations fail to realize the benefits that prompted the integration in the first place.

With The Global M&A Tango, you have everything you need to integrate two old entities into a powerful new organization poised for dramatic growth in the comingdecades.

Fons Trompenaars is a world-renowned expert on international management and the author of the global bestseller Riding the Waves of Culture, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. The cofounder and director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (THT), he is author or coauthor of eleven bestselling books on culture and business, innovation, and leadership.

Maarten Nijhoff Asser is a consultant at THT whose areas of expertise include the facilitation of change-management processes at the senior management level and the development of scenario planning workshops. His special interests are strategic dilemma reconciliationand action-learning-based leadership development programs, which he has facilitated with clients all over the world.