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Hosted by Alex Edith · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 24 episodes
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Helpful tips for employees, managers, and senior leaders going through change at work, especially a merger or acquisition. M&A is messy, don’t let it break your career…. or you!
Alex Edith hosts We've Been Acquired, a business show with 24 episodes published.
When a merger or acquisition threatens your job, it doesn't just threaten your bank account. For a very specific group of people, it feels like an existential threat to their actual right to exist. I’m talking to the per
In the corporate world, we use clinical terms like "synergy," "restructuring," and "redundancies." But what you are actually experiencing during a major acquisition is grief. The Grief Recovery Handbook teaches us that g
It is one of the most agonizing, frustrating bait-and-switches in corporate life. You did everything right. You put in the extra hours, you hit your KPIs, and you had the explicit, verbal backing of your manager. You wer
The severance agreement is signed, your corporate laptop is locked, and you are officially on the outside looking in. Naturally, your next stop is LinkedIn. You open the app, and your feed is flooded with those boilerpla
It’s a text message or a sudden morning announcement that makes your stomach drop: your manager—the person who hired you, mentored you, and shielded you from corporate politics—is leaving the company. Visit www.wevebeena
We need to talk about a very strange, deeply unsettling psychological twist that happens during a corporate acquisition. We’ve talked about survivor's guilt from the perspective of the person who kept their job. But what
The calendar invite for the emergency morning meeting vanished, the Slack icons for half your team suddenly went grey, and the text messages started pouring in. The axe finally swung. But as the dust settles on a brutal
In our last look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, we talked about how a corporate merger instantly drops you down the psychological pyramid. Today, we need to talk about the worst-case scenario: what happens when the comp
When an acquisition happens, the office rumor mill goes into overdrive. Fear takes the wheel. Today, we are leaning on ancient Toltec wisdom to keep our sanity intact through The Four Agreements . Visit www.wevebeenacqui
Have you ever wondered why an unexpected corporate merger can make you feel so entirely unhinged? Why is it that normally calm, hyper-rational professionals suddenly find themselves unable to focus, losing sleep, or feel
During a merger or acquisition, it is incredibly easy to view our managers as the villains, the gatekeepers, or at the very least, all-knowing corporate robots who hold all the answers. We constantly look to them for sta
Today we’re talking about Stay Interviews. In some companies, stay interviews are mandatory at certain intervals, in others they offer stay interview resources but don’t have specific requirements, and in others, nobody
During an M&A transition, the workplace dynamic quickly morphs into an absolute pressure cooker. Your slack notifications are buzzing at 9:00 PM, managers are making frantic, last-minute requests, and the unwritten expec
The first week of an acquisition is an emotional rollercoaster. You’re dealing with frustrating town halls, anxious peers, and a complete lack of concrete answers from management. In moments like this, a voice inside you
I love books because they give you different perspectives on things. Today’s book is Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou. If you've been acquired by a private equity firm, this is a must r
When your company gets acquired, you don’t just carry that stress in your laptop bag—you bring it right through your front door. It sits at the dinner table, and it keeps you awake at night. One of the hardest parts of c
Fear comes from the unknown. If you want to demystify the entity that just bought your employer, you need to step outside your internal corporate bubble and do some external intelligence gathering. It’s time to research
An acquisition creates an information vacuum. And because corporate leadership rarely fills that vacuum fast enough with concrete facts, human nature takes over. Rumors fill the void. This episode covers how to be a vaul
Asking questions in front of your peers and managers can be nervewracking, but I guarantee you aren’t the only one with the question. Some people show up to town halls or open office hours not to ask questions themselves
When you want to get information or an answer to something, it can be uncomfortable to ask. Your burning question may only apply to your situation (or you may think it only applies to you) and it may not be appropriate f
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We've Been Acquired is hosted by Alex Edith. The show is categorised under business (careers) and has published 24 episodes.
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