Merging Cultures More Difficult than Merely Merging Companies

Often mergers are seen as synergistic business opportunities. Plans usually revolve around numbers and making them work. More focus should be put on merging corporate cultures. This is often much more difficult and can spell disaster especially for large corporate mergers.

Microsoft and Yahoo! could fall into this category. Microsoft would have no problem coming up with the financial resources to make the deal successful, but can they merge cultures effectively? Yahoo! and Microsoft are so different in terms of corporate culture that I think this deal will fail based on that fact alone. See my previous blog entry on who I think may be a better fit for Yahoo!
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Vassilios
Co-Founder
OuterVillage.com
http://outervillage.com

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