Emilie Feldman [Archive.org URL]

Very often when you say the word “culture” or the words “culture clash” in the context of mergers and acquisitions, companies or people will say, “We both wear jeans to work and have beer at the end of the day on Friday,” and then they say, “Our cultures are the same, therefore things will be fine when we do mergers and acquisitions.” That’s a completely misplaced view of culture.

I would point much more to the notion of “how we do things.” What are our processes for getting things done within our organization, and are those compatible with what the target has in place in terms of its own processes, its own ways of doing things?

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