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Trust Busters in Mergers and Acquisitions

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Mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") are on the rise in 2011, and industry analysts now predict more than $3 trillion in global M&A activity for the year. As a result, employees—who, at best, feel marginalized—lose all trust in leadership. By Dennis and Michelle Reina. So, why do the majority of M&As fail?

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Our Social Brain

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Partly its a question of time and energy. For example, to be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time and emotional energy. A paper published in 2011 found that on Twitter the average number of other people a user regularly interacts with falls between 100 and 200. An Integrated Leadership Team.

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Retention and Development of Great Talent

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Talented people thrive on that kind of energy. The most effective leaders realize that a thoughtful balance of center-based leadership with local initiative is critical, that the greatest creativity and innovation emerges from managed conflict between central and local initiatives and perspectives.