But there is another choice: Embrace the complexity, ambiguity, and intensity of the integration period and turn it into your own leadership development academy .

FORBES: Take Advantage of Merger Integration -- Before it Takes Advantage of You

Yet when I probe a little deeper, many of those managers grudgingly acknowledge that the integration process was a period of intense learning.

FORBES: Take Advantage of Merger Integration -- Before it Takes Advantage of You

Mr Lindsey points out that today's period of globalisation has a precursor in the free markets and economic integration of the mid-19th century.

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