When All Else Fails: Merge

The general inability of large organizations to face change and flexibly deal with it hit home with this recent headline in Toronto’s Globe and Mail: Donation drop forces merger of Canada’s largest cancer charities, The merger of the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) was triggered by revenue decline of 16% at the CCS and 33% at the CBCF. Both charities had begun to eat heavily into their reserves. The chair of the CCS, Robert Lawrie, whose day job is that of a mergers and acquisition specialist, said “the deal amounts to the reinvention of

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