Five Frogs on a Log: A CEO's Field Guide to Accelerating the Transition in Mergers, Acquisitions & Gut Wrenching Change - Softcover

Feldman, Mark L.; Spratt, Michael F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047148556X ISBN 13: 9780471485568

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

Five Frogs on a Log offers readers an entertaining andno-nonsense field guide to the mergers and acquisitions jungle,packed with insight and instruction for executing corporate changeand capturing shareholder value. Whether you're buying anothercompany or acquiring a new vision of the future, this book proffersan unconventional perpsective and a practical, readily accessibleset of solutions to the single greatest challenge facing today'smanagers: execting rapid transitions in mergers, acquisitions andgut wrenching change.

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About the Author

MARK L. FELDMAN, Ph.D., is a partner and managing director ofPricewaterhouseCoopers' global mergers and acquisitions consultingbusiness - The Accelerated Transition. He provides strategicadvisory services in accelrating the capture of sustained economicvalue from mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has twentyyears of international consulting experience with many of thoseyears spent in the Asia-Pacific region. He has published manyarticles and is a frequently quoted speaker who has addressedaudiences throughout the world.
MICHAEL F. SPRATT, Ph.D., is also a partner and managing directorin PricewaterhouseCoopers' global mergers and acquisitionsconsulting business. He provides strategic advisory services,specializing in companies undergoing dramatic change. He haseighteen years of international consulting experience and nineyears of expereince in production management and business planningin the semiconductor and instrumentation industry. He has publishednumerous articles on transition management, value driver analysis,and value creation incentive plans. He has addressed audiencesthroughout the United States and is a popular speaker on cahnge andtransition.

From the Back Cover

Written by Mark L. Feldman and Michael F. Spratt of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Five Frogs on a Log offers readers an entertaining and no-nonsense field guide to the mergers and acquisitions jungle, packed with insight and instruction for executing corporate change and capturing shareholder value. Whether you're buying another company or acquiring a new vision of the future, this book proffers an unconventional perspective and a practical, readily accessible set of solutions to the single greatest challenge facing today's managers: executing rapid transitions in mergers, acquisitions and gut wrenching change.
"In a world filled with consultants and consultant-speak, Mark L.Feldman and Michael F. Spratt cut through the clutter, get to the root of this issues, and clearly lay out a map through the transition mine field in an entertaining and understandable way. Five Frogs on a Log is filled with interesting and fully appropriate anecdoted that drive home their many valuable insights to successful transition." Thomas T. Stallkamp, President, Chrysler Corporation
"Five Frogs on a Log is a must read for any senior executive contemplating the prospect of acquiring or being acquired....The light-hearted style and fictional accounts of merger events makes the material an engaging read." Charles M. Geschke, President and Chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems Incorporated
"Here is a compendious guide to the jungle of change management. Think of it as snake boots and snake serum. Don't go into the undergrowth without it." John Varley, Chief Executive, Retail Financial Services, Barclays Bank PLC
"Mark Feldman and Michael Spratt have spent fifteen years advising the world's largest, most panic-stricken companies on the implementation of mergers and acquisitions. They have condensed that experience into a book as full of wit as it is in wisdom." John Makinson, group Finance Director, Pearson PLC
"We've had first hand experience with these concepts and processes...and they work! Any executive comtemplating a merger or acquisition should read this first....even before talking to the investment banker. These are practical, executable methods that can capture the value of the ocmbiantion as quickly as possible." Dick Moeller, Chairman of the Board, VTEL Corporation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047148556X
• ISBN 13: 9780471485568
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224