Chapter 8 Mergers and Acquisitions—Managing the Common Sources of Culture Clash
Chapter 9 Alliances—Finding Ways to Leverage Your Collective Capabilities
Chapter 10 Major Restructuring—Gaining Sustained Value from Your Reorganization
Chapter 11 Major Transformation—Addressing Your Plan’s Hidden Barrier
Chapter 12 Key Decisions and Everyday Business—Extending Tangible Culture Into the Operational Parts of Your Business
We recognize it is unlikely you will need to handle the cultural integration of 30,000 people into a global organization of more than 300,000—our primary focus in Section I. Section II should be right up your alley—it is a “show and tell” for how Tangible Culture can be applied to a variety of efforts where culture is important. Each of these topics could fill volumes, so we briefly explain the business and culture challenges, and then demonstrate how Tangible Culture can help, using examples compiled from our experiences. You may want to select chapters most applicable to your current needs and return to other chapters as future needs arise. At the sake of some repetition, Chapters 8 through 11 are designed to be complete coverage of what you need to apply Tangible Culture to that chapter’s topic—from a discussion of the issues through an example and specific actions to take.