Speed after the deal. Faster and more efficient post-deal integration through employee involvement in decision making.

“The bird is freed” tweeted Elon Musk on October 28th, 2022, with his usual bravado, subsequently implying that the job was finished. He had just completed the long-awaited acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion. How-ever, Musk’s well-documented and self-inflicted difficulties in the weeks following the deal, adequately demonstrated that the task of integration was anything but complete.