"If they weren’t going to make it on the bus in the long term, why let them suffer in the short term? One senior [[Wells Fargo]] executive told us: “**We all agreed this was an acquisition, not a merger, and there’s no sense beating around the bush, not being straightforward with people. We decided it would be best to simply do it on day one. We planned our efforts so that we could say, right up front, ‘Sorry, we don’t see a role for you,’ or ‘Yes, we do see a role; you have a job, so stop worrying about it**.’ We were not going to subject our culture to a death by a thousand cuts." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[mergers-and-acquisitions]], [[organisational-development]], [[leadership]] **Source** -- [[202410171047 - B - Good to Great]]