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Creating Win-Win Partnerships: Mergers and Acquisitions

VIEWING LIFE IN PARTNERSHIP TERMS IS A GENERALLY HEALTHY perspective. Successful friendships, teams, marriages, civic organizations, and local communities all have partnership characteristics. The key to successful partnerships is focusing on making the relationship win-win. Obviously, sometimes creating win-win relationships is almost impossible. To the degree practical, win-lose or lose-win partnerships should be avoided because they are likely to fail.

During my tenure at BB&T, we executed over 100 mergers. We approached mergers as creating win-win partnerships, which is one reason practically ...

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