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<blockquote data-quote="In the Know" data-source="post: 381869"><p>When analysts pontificate over the numbers and the math 'look good' or the same spiel about 'synergies' give buyer and seller a warm fuzzy glow of contentment, be careful. UPS should pay as much attention to the 'soft' side of TNT as much as the 'hard' assets it's buying. Many acquisitions have foundered because not enough was done to understand whether the two corporate cultures would 'fit' well together. Granted that UPS and TNT share many organisation characteristics, but are their cultures compatible? UPS is renowned for its military-like discipline, strong management supervision of operating units and global standardisation (of process, procedures and personnel). The opposite of TNT in fact, with it's encouragement of individualism, federal-like autonomy for country business units and the resulting adaptations or lip service paid to global standards by local management. UPS should be careful before reaching for what could be a poison chalice that may give it severe cultural indigestion. Though orange and brown might be a nice colour combination for a time, underneath it could be quite ugly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="In the Know, post: 381869"] When analysts pontificate over the numbers and the math 'look good' or the same spiel about 'synergies' give buyer and seller a warm fuzzy glow of contentment, be careful. UPS should pay as much attention to the 'soft' side of TNT as much as the 'hard' assets it's buying. Many acquisitions have foundered because not enough was done to understand whether the two corporate cultures would 'fit' well together. Granted that UPS and TNT share many organisation characteristics, but are their cultures compatible? UPS is renowned for its military-like discipline, strong management supervision of operating units and global standardisation (of process, procedures and personnel). The opposite of TNT in fact, with it's encouragement of individualism, federal-like autonomy for country business units and the resulting adaptations or lip service paid to global standards by local management. UPS should be careful before reaching for what could be a poison chalice that may give it severe cultural indigestion. Though orange and brown might be a nice colour combination for a time, underneath it could be quite ugly. [/QUOTE]
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