Successful mergers and acquisitions.

The article discusses the factors which have caused executives to achieve a failure mergers and acquisition transaction. One of these factors refers to the attitude of executives in treating the integration strategy as a taboo since they think that honesty will make the deal unsuccessful. Other factors include creating teams which speaks contradictory messages and placing personal interests before the team, delaying the decisions to determine which roles and people should stay in the company, and the failure of executives to recognize the mergers are about relationship.